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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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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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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I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.
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We are disappointed that the Court of Appeals has decided that, unlike every other client and attorney in this country, government attorneys and their clients do not enjoy the right to have confidential communications.
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When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
