Jessica Williams Quotes
Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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What you see is what you get.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.
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Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.
