Joanna Coles Quotes
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a lot of advice in that area, just spending quantity time with the one you love and the one you care about because that's when you really develop a relationship.
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Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of steam. This one had momentum, I never got bored or discouraged. It is made up of short pieces, which is where my comfort zone is. I'm more of a sprinter than a long-distance runner. When you do a short piece, you get in and get out; you don't linger.
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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
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Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.
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I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.
