Joy Fielding Quotes
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
Quotes to Explore
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.
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Birth is such an emotional thing.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
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The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
