Joanna Coles Quotes
It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I don't have many friends.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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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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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career.
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But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.
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It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.
