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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We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
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Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
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Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.
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I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
