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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But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
