Jenny Lewis Quotes
I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.
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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
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When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
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Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
