James Joyce Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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Going to the Comic Cons and meeting people - that's a fun energy to be around.
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
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Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
