Joan Kirner Quotes
A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I think all politicians lie.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
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I met Beckett at my brother’s place. That was a Big meeting, in capital letters. It was before war started, life was still normal. That time I was very lonely. We saw each other often. Before the war he had published already something, but his fame came in 1953. We never spoke about his work. He was a taciturn man. Sometimes a word escaped from his mouth. Sure, a word you would never forget. It would stick in your head... This friendship with Beckett is the most important experience in my life. He was fully alive for my way of working. What he could express in words, I did with my paintings.
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When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.
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A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.
