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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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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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 don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
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After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
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Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
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Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
