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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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
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There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
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I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.
