Jenny Lewis Quotes
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.
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I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
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I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
