Jen Kirkman Quotes
I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
Quotes to Explore
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
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I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
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I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.
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A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.
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Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.
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I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
