Joan Kirner Quotes
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.
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Before 2003, none of us knew which part of the country was Sunni and which part was Shi'a. This was something new to Iraq and we are reaping the results at this point. Women's wellbeing has paid the price.
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If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.
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Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
