Joanna Going Quotes
Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I'm not politically correct.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
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You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
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Ween is in my top five and have always been a huge inspiration.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.
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Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.
