Joan Blades Quotes
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.
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I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.
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Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
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My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
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R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.
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Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.
