Ryan Phillippe Quotes
The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
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It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
