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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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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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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When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.
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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.
