Joan Jett Quotes
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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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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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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
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Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
