Joanna Coles Quotes
I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I enjoy my life.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.
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People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.
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There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
