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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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.
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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
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[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.
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I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.
