Joanna Coles Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
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If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
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Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.
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I think that women's lives are multilayered.
