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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Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.
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Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.
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The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.
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What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.
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I don't mean to say that as a snide remark toward a certain population in our society, ... But they have a limitation of their attention span, a lot of it probably due to too much rap music going in their ears and coming out their being. So they need to get a focal point that lasts longer than a TV commercial or one short 15-second span.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
