Joely Richardson Quotes
I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.
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What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
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The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
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I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
