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.

Joanne Kelly

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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.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Great
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Team
  • Never
  • Give

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Never
  • Humble

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• 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.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Think
  • Change

• As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Food
  • Change
  • Older

• Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Like
  • Golf
  • Young

• 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?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Never
  • Legs

• 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.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Harder

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• Sam Cooke was a gospel singer like myself, and when he crossed over and started singing rock n' roll, it kind of gave me the green light to go ahead and do it.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Light
  • Rock
  • Singing

• There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Night
  • Simple
  • Choice

• I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • People
  • Great

• Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.

  

  Wilhelm Keitel
  • Life
  • Political
  • Ideas

• What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Living
  • Forgive
  • Concentrate

• I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

  

  Joanne Kelly