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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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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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 never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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I got more money than I can spend now.
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I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.
