Joanna Coles Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
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Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.
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I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.
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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
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You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.
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What magazines do is curate: we give accurate and trustworthy information. If you have a problem, it's very difficult to go to the web and get accurate information... magazines, at their best, should be an incredible voyage of discovery.
