Jenny Lewis Quotes
When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.
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I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.
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A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.
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I always want to keep my skin clean when I get up in the morning, and I use sunscreen before I go out to the field.
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When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'
