Joan Rivers Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!
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It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
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[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.
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I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.
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If you don't like something, change it. My parents expected me to stay in my office job as an administrator at the Co-op because I'm disabled, but I said no and changed my whole life.
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Two is company; three is fifty bucks.
