Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes
As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.
