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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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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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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When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.
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I feel weird without lipstick. Even after the first time I wore a really neon pink or a really bright red, I felt really strange without it there. My lips are a main feature, so I feel naked without them.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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There isn't that disconnect between the fashion industry and people now - you can be a trendsetter even if you don't go to shows. The industry isn't as snobbish as it used to be.
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I love to be underestimated.
