Jenny Lewis Quotes
I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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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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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
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I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.
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Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
