Jenny Slate Quotes

It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.

Jenny Slate

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

FightBodyWantWayResponsible

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Jesse Jackson

IntegrityGodChildrenMenBlack

The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.

Jeph Loeb

LifeGoodHomeTimeCityDinner

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

John Corey Whaley

LearningGreatExperienceStruggle

Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

CharacterFeelingsMoralWantAnswer

My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.

Jeff Nichols

FocusProgressForwardThinkBetter

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

Andy Goldsworthy

SmallHeatExpensiveBigHappened

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

Steve Carell

SuccessMeThoughtStrangeBeenLot

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

Tony Judt

AgeBestThinkMeasureBeyondMean

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Russell Crowe

Not KnowingYouWantKnowingFilm

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

Luc Montagnier

TimeFeetYearWillTwoMiddle

As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.

Chris Fussell

LightGrowSpeedConnectedStarted

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

Ashley Tisdale

MeNowMoviesKindLivingMy Own

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jenny Slate