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Jen Kirkman Quotes

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 28, 1974

Topics

Book You Never Going Your Second

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

Family Father Mother Man Control Up

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

History Poetry Literature You Drama

As a freshman at Stanford University - a young black man - when O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, it was a joyful moment. I was happy, absolutely. It wasn't necessarily a matter of whether he was guilty or innocent, per se, it was a matter of finally seeing someone who looked like me have the justice system work in their favor.

Sterling K. Brown

Work Justice Moment Man Happy Me

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

Job Management You Safe Shoulders

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

Think Happen Might Books I Think

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Culture Think Find Important Why

I think the universe was preparing me to be an actor. I never pursued one thing for long, but I was jack of all trades. I was learning everything possible because I knew my father would never shell out money for dresses or parties, but he would always give me money for new courses and books.

Divyanka Tripathi

Learning Father Money Me Think Long

Parsley goes really nicely with everything. It adds a nice lightness; it wakes up a dish.

Antoni Porowski

Nice Everything Up Dish Goes Really

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

Work Experience Work Hard Rest Think

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

Character Myself Actor Never Lead

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

Funny Home People Me Comedy New

Adventure games are all about details - if you happen to take this one object and use it with this other object, in a really weird place, at a weird time. If you happen to write a really funny dialogue line for that, even if it didn't solve the puzzle, people will appreciate that.

Funny Time Adventure People Puzzle

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