Gloria Jones Quotes
I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
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It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
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I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.
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When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
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In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.
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I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.
