Jenifer Lewis Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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Too clever is dumb.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
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I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.
