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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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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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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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.
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I got through college.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
