Busy Philipps Quotes

I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • College
  • Theatre

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Wife

• Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • War
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Hall of Fame
  • Mentioned
  • Debated

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Same

• Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.

  

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  • Men
  • Earth

• Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Society

• It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music
  • Important
  • Help

• I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

  

  Curtis Sliwa
  • God

• The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Fruit

• I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

  

  Busy Philipps
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