Joe Miller Quotes
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I love to smile.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.
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I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
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Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause.
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Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'
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Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.
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We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
