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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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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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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There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
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I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.
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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.
