Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.
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It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
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I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.
