Joanna Going Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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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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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.
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It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
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In real life, I don't love working out, but I've been driven to it.
