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I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

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• Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

  

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

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• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

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• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

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• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

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• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

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• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

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• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

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• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

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• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

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• In life go straight and turn right.

  

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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

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• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

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• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

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• People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

  

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• There's an obvious attraction To the path of least resistance in your life Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence Could make you try tonight 'Cause it's easy not to So much easier not to And what goes around never comes around to you To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.

  

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• It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

  

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• I was not an activist.

  

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• My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

  

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• I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
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