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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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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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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I'm insatiably ambitious.
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The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.
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Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.
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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.
