Joy Fielding Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
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The moment people talk of 'implementing' instead of 'doing,' and of 'finalizing' instead of 'finishing,' the organization is already running a fever.
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In the dark womb where I beganMy mother's life made me a man.Through all the months of human birthHer beauty fed my common earth.I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,But through the death of some of her.
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
