Joyce Giraud (Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica) Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.
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'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
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It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
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I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.