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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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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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.
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I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.
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The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.
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Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
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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.
