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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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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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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The chairs and tables around us which broadcast to us incessantly those signals which affect our sight and touch cannot in their nature be like unto the signals or to the sensations which the signals awake at the end of their journey.
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The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title.
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I remember when Joe Calzaghe fought Jeff Lacy, and there was all this hype about Lacy being some sort of unbeatable force, and Joe absolutely hammered him.
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There's a lot of things in the works and some things pan out and some don't. But to stay on top of your game, you've got to try out new things.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.