James Joyce Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
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I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.
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But toms will till. I know he well.
