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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I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
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I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
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I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
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Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.
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I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.
