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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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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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.
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We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
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I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
