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 my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.
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I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.
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I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?
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I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
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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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For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
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You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.
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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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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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It's important to say women are complex.
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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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I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.
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People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.
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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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I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.
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I just want to be able to be creative.
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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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Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
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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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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 spend so much time hoping things for myself.
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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'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.