Joy Fielding Quotes

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

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• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Day
  • Same

• I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Running

• Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Look

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Fame

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Wife

• I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Women
  • Hand

• I love coming back around Northern California.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • California

• Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Great
  • Science

• What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

  

  Jason Day
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Career

• A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

  

  Ari Kiev
  • Chance
  • Successful
  • Days

• Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Party
  • Mask

• Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

  

  Austin Mahone
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Being gay is not something that defines me. What defines me is what my mom always taught me: to treat everyone with respect, to always be a hard worker, and to be kind.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Respect
  • Mom
  • Gay

• I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

  

  Joy Fielding
  • Writing
  • Read
  • Fiction