Joan Blades Quotes
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
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When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
