Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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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.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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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.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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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.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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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.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
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I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.
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To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.
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I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!
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My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
