Jenny Slate Quotes
It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.
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Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
