Jenny Slate Quotes
For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
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I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
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Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.
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Cosmology is the elder sister of cosmogony.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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Knight saved it with his back arm
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For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
