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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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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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 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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Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.
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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.
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If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
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'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
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I love to be underestimated.
