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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Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.
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If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.
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I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.
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It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
