Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
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My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.
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Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
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I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.
