Jennifer Saunders Quotes
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
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I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
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I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.
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Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
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If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
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It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same time, I'm blessed with the lack of base paint on the canvas.
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I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
