Jenny Slate Quotes

I just really like it when things are earnest.

Jenny Slate

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• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Too Much

• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Book
  • Goal
  • Doing

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Science
  • You
  • Facts

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Sacred
  • Communion

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Election
  • Optimism

• In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • She
  • City

• Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Successful

• Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Business
  • Building

• People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • World
  • Seems

• Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Education
  • Moral

• When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Trouble
  • Justification

• We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Elvis
  • Inhibitions
  • Gene Vincent

• I just really like it when things are earnest.

  

  Jenny Slate