Joanna Coles Quotes
Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.
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A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.
