Jen Kirkman Quotes
I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
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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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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 in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.
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Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.
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The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
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Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.
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The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.
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Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
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I rarely have out-of-town visitors because you have to do things like take them around L.A.
