Joanna Coles Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
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I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
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'Arrested Development' is great; Mitch Hurwitz is great. Plus, it's the one show I've ever had where, on the small parts, he just let me cast people.
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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
