Leslie Jones Quotes
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.
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If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.
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When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
