Joan Lunden Quotes
I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
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Fully absorbed in the peculiar text he had become totally oblivious to the noises and movements around him; all that existed for him now was the printed page held motionless before his intense scrutiny.
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I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon. Part of the reason I work on stuff for so long is just because I love working on it. It's not that I'm haunted by some ghost sound. I just have nothing else to do with my life. Some people like to obsessively shop online. I like to obsessively rack up studio bills.
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I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
