Joanna Gaines Quotes
For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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If you can wait till I get home, then I swear to you... that we can make this last.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
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My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?
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For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.
