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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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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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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I think what I most admired about my father was his extraordinary courage. He had such energy to pursue whatever he wanted, and he really didn't care what others thought.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.
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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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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.
