Jenny Slate Quotes

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

Jenny Slate

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I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

Megan Fox

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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Michael Haneke

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It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.

John Updike

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In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.

Stephen Kinzer

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You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Stockard Channing

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I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

Shooter Jennings

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Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

Derek Jacobi

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I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

Antoine Fuqua

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

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These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

Tipper Gore

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