Jenna McCarthy Quotes
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.
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I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
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I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.
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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
