Joan Smalls Quotes
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
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If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing.
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I do love cars.
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I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.
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As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'
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The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
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But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn,With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
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The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Someday death will take us to another star.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
