It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.


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JENNY AGUTTER
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same ki...
JENNY AGUTTER
I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member...
JENNY NIMMO
Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked...
JENNY ZHANG
Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still ...
JENNY LAWSON
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I ma...
JENNY LEWIS
I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
JENNY SLATE
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY
I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in...
JENNY LEWIS
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her...
JENNY DOWNHAM
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous o...
JENNY DOWNHAM
It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.'
'Why are you saying that?'
JENNY DOWNHAM
The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really specia...
JENNY BICKS
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
JENNY SLATE
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't unti...
JENNY ECLAIR
It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ...
JENNY LEWIS
I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just f...
JENNY MCCARTHY
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society an...
JENNY MCCARTHY
The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, w...
JENNY SHIPLEY
I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I...
JENNY LEWIS
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness th...
JENNY ZHANG
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
JENNY SHIPLEY
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really ...
JENNY LAWSON
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably...
JENNY LAWSON
A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' ...
JENNY ECLAIR
I originally recorded [the latter] for the solo record, and I wasn't really confident with the way i...
JENNY LEWIS
That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you...
JENNY SLATE
It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with ...
JENNY SLATE
Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.
JENNY NIMMO
But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing.
JENNY HAN
In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
JENNY LEWIS
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accid...
JENNY ZHANG
Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
JENNY DOWNHAM
It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they wer...
JENNY DOWNHAM
I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't...
JENNY DOWNHAM
I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I cou...
JENNY DOWNHAM
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o...
JENNY ECLAIR
Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because th...
JENNY ECLAIR
I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
JENNY SLATE
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, ...
JENNY MCCARTHY
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl...
JENNY LEWIS
When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.
JENNY HAN
I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?...
JENNY HAN
...When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries...
JENNY HAN
Smirking, he says, "Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need...
JENNY HAN
I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.
JENNY HAN
I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd neve...
JENNY HAN
You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.
JENNY HAN