Ryan Phillippe Quotes
People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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The company Sunfare delivers food to my house, and I eat six meals day. My two cheats are hot chocolate that I'm obsessed with and drink multiple times a day, and root beer I drink once in a million years. I drink about 2 gallons of water a day.
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I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
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I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.
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My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
