Joan Jett Quotes
Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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Marriage is hard work, period.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
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Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.
