Jenny Slate Quotes
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.
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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
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My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.
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I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
