Jenny Slate Quotes
I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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God gave me everything I have.
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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
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I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.
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I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.
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I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
