Anthony Jeselnik Quotes
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I want to win football games.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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I'm so happy to have all this support from everyone around the world, and I'm forever thankful for all of them.
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Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.
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I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.
