Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
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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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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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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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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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
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I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.
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The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
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People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
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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.