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 reach a point where you don't work for money.
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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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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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Trust God, and do the next thing.
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I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
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I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
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I love to be underestimated.
