Jenny Lewis Quotes
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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It's time to start believing - Oh yes.Believing who you are: You are a shining star.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
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I've been acting for 27 years, and anonymity has always been a part of what I do. Of course you get recognised every now and again, but 'Homeland' pushed me into a completely different strata, and that took me by surprise.
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There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
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I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....
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If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.
