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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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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 didn't always have research jobs.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
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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.
