Busy Philipps Quotes
I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.
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I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles... they don't have one that says 'oops.
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We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.
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I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.
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I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.
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I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.
