Joy Fielding Quotes
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I love dressing up.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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I really like children to watch my movies.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
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I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.
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I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
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No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.
