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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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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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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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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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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I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
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I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
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Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.