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Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

Joey Lauren Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1971

Topics

Friend Best Me Best Friend Think

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Beautiful Poetry Space Think Play

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

Hope Time Red Old Years Wanted

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

Myself Boat Better Congress Done

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Meghan O'Rourke

Grief Face Feel You Wonder Deepest

I think if you hold your nerve and don't sell out and become something that you're not, you can go anywhere. You know, I think that sort of heart and honesty and size travels.

Honesty Heart Think You Know Become

I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

Great Focus Day I Am Team You

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Life Age Myself Know Big Well

The Hendricks/Lawler fights, those were just epic. Both were non-stop. I couldn't stop watching, and it was hard to look away. I watch those as a fan, and to see two guys fighting like that for 25 minutes is crazy.

Crazy Fighting Look Stop Watching

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Fire Death Slavery Limits Better

For me to play gay, it has to be something special because it might actually be more of a risk. So I'm waiting for that role - I want it to be something that moves things forward.

Waiting Me Forward Gay Play Want

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

Roland Emmerich

Snow Water Hollywood Rule Away Stay

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Great Job Me World Proud Out

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