Jennette McCurdy Quotes
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
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I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
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I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work.
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I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music.
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I've never had a roommate, even when I was growing up.
