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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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
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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.
