Joanna Coles Quotes
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.
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Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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I love to be underestimated.
