Jenifer Lewis Quotes

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

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The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.

Jim James

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I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

Joel Silver

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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Jennifer Ehle

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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

John Kricfalusi

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I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.

Robert Gossett

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I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Matthew Rhys

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If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Steve Carell

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I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

Tony Shalhoub

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I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

Ruth Rendell

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Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

Dick York

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If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.

David Souter

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I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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