Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
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My happiness is very fragile.
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Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
