Jenifer Lewis Quotes
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
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More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
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Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.
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It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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I want to co-produce again.
