Jo Whiley (Johanne Morton Whiley) Quotes
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.
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The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.
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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
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It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.
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I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
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The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is brewing. Halfway through the series, some of the Selfridges staff have to go off to fight, so they get women in to do the men's jobs.
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Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.
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A lot of people know that I danced, but I also sang.
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A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
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I have only ever wanted to be judged for my work, not my sex.
