Joanne Kelly Quotes
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to the writing was just so good. It's so rare that you get such good writing these days but it was awhile ago.
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All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
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How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
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One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.
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I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
