Joss Stone (Joscelyn Eve Stoker) Quotes
When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.
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I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.
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A woman in the audience asked Barack Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked President Obama how he would deal with this sort of thing, and Obama said we cannot consider the joy of life in this situation. He said I would advise her to take a pain killer. That is the essence of the President of the United States.
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When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.
