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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No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.
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I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.
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If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.
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Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
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My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.
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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.
