Jo Whiley (Johanne Morton Whiley) Quotes
I am very lucky I chose 100% of the songs on my show. My audience loves to hear absolute classics and I am in the wonderful position in being able to play them.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
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Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.
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I loved football. I'm so glad I played. But I didn't think it was wise for me to play longer.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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I am very lucky I chose 100% of the songs on my show. My audience loves to hear absolute classics and I am in the wonderful position in being able to play them.
