Joan Leslie Quotes
That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I buy way too many books.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.
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A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.
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That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
