Jenny Slate Quotes
I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
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The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.
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I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
