Joanna Coles Quotes
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
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We all do stupid things.
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I have been so blessed not only to talk about things that I want to talk about in my industry, but also to have a platform - and people want to hear about it.
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You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.
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I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
