I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

Rashida Jones

Good Won Wit

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

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Smile Life Humor

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

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Men Life Art

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

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Love You Well

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

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Love Art Who

Timing is everything with relationships.

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Relationship Wit Very

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

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Mom Men Cool

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

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Years Year Wit

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

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UN T Say

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

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War Good Art

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

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Time Cool You

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

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Art Think Thin

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

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Work Wit Will

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

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Art Years Year

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

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Car Tin Than

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

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Time Good Way

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

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Ways Way Through

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

Rashida Jones

Good You Would

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

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Experience Youth You

I have no issues with my identity.

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Wit T Sue

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

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Smile You Very

I'm terrified of performing live.

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Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Rashida Jones

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

Rashida Jones

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

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I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

Rashida Jones

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

Rashida Jones

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

Rashida Jones

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

Rashida Jones

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Rashida Jones

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Rashida Jones

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Rashida Jones

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

Rashida Jones

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Rashida Jones

You can never stop discovering music.

Rashida Jones

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Rashida Jones

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Rashida Jones

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

Rashida Jones

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

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I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

Rashida Jones

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Rashida Jones

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

Rashida Jones

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

Rashida Jones

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Rashida Jones

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

Rashida Jones

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

Rashida Jones

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

Rashida Jones

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

Rashida Jones

I can fall asleep anywhere.

Rashida Jones

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

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