Jen Kirkman Quotes
I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.
Quotes to Explore
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I like to do Pilates.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
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I saw a bakery truck go by with the name 'Rocco' on it, and that's when I decided to become Alex Rocco.
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Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.
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The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
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I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.
