Joan Jett Quotes
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.
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I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
