Joan Armatrading Quotes
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.
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Both heaven and hell are within us.
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
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You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.
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If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
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I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
