Jenny Slate Quotes
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You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.
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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.
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I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
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You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.
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It's important to say women are complex.
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I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.
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I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
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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.
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I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.
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I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
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My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
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People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.
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I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
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I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
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For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
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A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
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Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
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I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.
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I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
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Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
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I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.
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I just really like it when things are earnest.
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I just want to be able to be creative.
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It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.