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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Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
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People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
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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.
