Joan Van Ark Quotes
When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
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I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.
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The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.
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You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
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I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.
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Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
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When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
