Joan Rivers Quotes
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
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You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
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But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'
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Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
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I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
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In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.
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Catchphrase: Can we talk?
