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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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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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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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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The men have long been unpaid and need relief.
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Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.
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Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
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I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.
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I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.
