Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Joey Lauren Adams

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• When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Friendly

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Father
  • North Carolina

• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Audience

• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
  • Army

• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Product
  • Selling

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

  

  Didi Conn
  • Music
  • Father
  • Son

• It's the rule of the two F's: I've got to be a fan and I've got to be a friend. We only work with people we have a cool personal relationship with.

  

  David Macklovitch
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Rule

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• Fundamentally, we need a mind-shift that reconnects our development to the biosphere to ensure good and safe lives for all in the future.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Future

• You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Money
  • Bible
  • Citizen

• My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Father
  • Pretty
  • Relationship