Jenifer Lewis Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
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When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
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The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer.
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If you just want to be a star, go away.
