Joan Jett Quotes
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
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I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
