Busy Philipps Quotes
Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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The coolest part about what I’m doing is that people will now reach out to me on Instagram and tell me how my song has changed their lives. The songs I write and I put out myself are very emotional, based off of heartbreak and relationships I’ve had, or haven’t had. I want people to feel something from my music.
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I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
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Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
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Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.
