Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

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• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Song
  • Girl

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Democracy
  • Migration
  • Export

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Everything
  • Evolve

• We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Technology

• If elected, I will win.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Win
  • Will
  • Elected

• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Picture
  • Moon
  • Paper

• My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Man
  • Me
  • Mom

• It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Angry

• My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Up
  • Business
  • Father

• I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Together

• My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Game
  • Dad

• I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Children
  • Why

• With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future-not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Future

• You're from the isle of ghosts and, as you know, there are ghosts walking around all over the place over there. Loads of people have seen them, heard a voice or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and there, that they exist between the fourth and the fifth dimension and that they visit us frequently.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Believe
  • Walking

• Death,-a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Death
  • Service

• Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;They lift their heavy lids, and look;And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,They read with joy, then shut the book.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Men
  • Book
  • Joy

• When you're dealing with a sick person, you're not important at all. You're just a nobody.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Important
  • Sick

• Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Attention
  • Russia
  • ISIS

• I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Friend
  • Girlfriend

• I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Thinking

• A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams