Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
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When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
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Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.
