Jemima Kirke Quotes
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
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Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins.
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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.
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By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
