Jenny Lewis Quotes
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.
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Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.
