Joyce Brothers (Joyce Diane Brothers) Quotes
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
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It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful-it is enough that it is a truth.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
