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 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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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
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And the course was all about bonding. People used to say, you know, what’s going to make for a good world? I said, I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world’s good just by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.
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Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.
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Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
