Leslie Jones Quotes
I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
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I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.
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The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.
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I would never quit comedy to make money. I've been doing it, like, 30 years. I still love it. That's my life.
