Joely Richardson Quotes
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
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Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.
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I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
