Josie Maran Quotes
There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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Ever since I felt the baby kick, it's such an amazing feeling, and it's really allowed me to embrace it. Once you feel this movement inside, it's just a whole different experience, so I love it now. It was tough at the beginning, but I'm past all that, and I love it now.
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Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
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There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.
