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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Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
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When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.
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I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.
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I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
