Jenny Lewis Quotes
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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A novel is not a rant.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
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I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
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I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
