Joely Richardson Quotes

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

Joely Richardson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 9, 1965

Topics

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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

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I'll audition for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director wants you, the creative people want you, but the studio is saying no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a guarantee; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines.

Melanie Lynskey

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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

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When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

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My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

Tom Waits

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I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Rufus Sewell

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Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

Lisa Madigan

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I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

Joss Whedon

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Austin O'Malley

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People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

Phyllis Schlafly

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Comedy is actually very macho driven.

Scott Thompson

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