Joanna Coles Quotes

When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.

Joanna Coles

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• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Help

• It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Important
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Group

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Psychology
  • Heroes

• To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

  

  Larry Elder
  • World
  • House
  • Opinion

• I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • Music
  • Working

• I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Deep

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.

  

  Alice S. Rossi
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Organization

• Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Think
  • Attention

• Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Focus

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Facts
  • Civilization

• When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children