Jenny Slate Quotes
I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
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I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
