Jen Sincero Quotes
If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
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We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
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More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
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If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.
