Joanna Going Quotes
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
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The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
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This is a generous country that realizes people want to work hard.
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'
