Jenny Slate Quotes
I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.
