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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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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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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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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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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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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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
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We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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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?
