Leslie Jones Quotes
I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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The reporting has always been what drives me.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion.
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Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
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I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
