Jenny Slate Quotes

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Jenny Slate

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LifeStepHappySpringThinkAlive

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

Jenifer Lewis

WaterGovernmentDriveGeneration

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

John Cena

MyselfI AmPeopleMeWantAccept

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

GodDayNightTryingBackSupreme

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

Merritt Wever

MeAlwaysBeenTheaterTerrifying

I like to have a title before I start writing.

Sue Monk Kidd

WritingStartLikeTitleBefore

Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

Simon Rattle

MusicMyselfDayWorldYearPlay

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

Tory Burch

WomenFashionThinkLoseWillNever

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Rita Ora

PeopleThinkYouLookSometimes

There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties.

Ronnie Coleman

LoveBirthdayDietGoOutMiss

I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan. I'm really into the 'Colbert Report' and 'Last Week Tonight.' And I really like to get on Netflix and watch, like, TV documentaries about: What happened to the mastodon? Or who was Jack the Ripper?

Scott Michael Foster

GameWeekNetflixWatchLastGet

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Ringo Starr

GoodMusicAgePeopleThinkYou

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I'm black.

Murray Head

StyleNew YorkPeopleBlackFind

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