Joan Jett Quotes
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
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I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
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I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.
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Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
