Jenn Lyon Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
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The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
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Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
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Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly.
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Larry David is such an incredible talent.
