When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
Dawn French
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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
James Salter
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The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.
Eduardo Galeano
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'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.
Tracy Morgan
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I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.
Percy Julian
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
Dan Colen
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Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.
Jodi Benson
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Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
Debbie Ford
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Carlos Valderrama was the one I admired most, really. At the time, he was a top player, and I had a lot of admiration for him. I met him once, and he's a great person, someone who provided the country with a lot of joy. He was a very intelligent footballer who could create something out of nothing as well as score goals.
James Rodriguez
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
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I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
Benmont Tench
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard
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Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.
Shawn Achor
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My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.
Alexander Chee
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Bear Grylls
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There's something about the kind of unconditional wild joy of creating that you have with your siblings that I am always trying to get back to.
Jill Soloway
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All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.
David Stern
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When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
Gretchen Rubin
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We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.
Zak Bagans
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
Robert Burns
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I love singing; I just don't get to do it enough. The times that I do it, once a year, every year with 'Divas Simply Singing,' is a truly joy to me, but I'd love to do it some more.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
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I get true joy out of that, being able to help people.
Baker Mayfield
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