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And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.


Donna Jo Napoli

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JO BONNER People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn'...
JO BRAND I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else ...
JO COX I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The ...
JO NESBø The hard part is putting one word after another.
JO LINSDELL Can you believe that just last weekend I was at my prom?! ... And now here I am with a record deal a...
ERIKA JO I guess you guys aren't going to hear this next song, but it's the it's going to be the next single ...
ERIKA JO It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he ...
ERIKA JO It's been crazy, but a good crazy. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I recorded the album and pu...
ERIKA JO Gwen: It's not going to work.
Paul: Pardon me?
Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with ...
JO LEIGH in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible
JO NESBø I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON Reason lives in the head, and faith in the heart. They're not always good neighbours.
JO NESBø Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.
JO WALTON 1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.
JO WALTON Marry me he said voice full of emotion. Be my soul mate my friend and my lover as long as we both li...
JO DAVIS Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.
JO NESBø But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we...
JO NESBø Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.
JO WALTON We are grateful to Tony Riley for his dedication and hard work and look forward to his continuing co...
JO MAJOR As we exit our corporate restructuring, we are pleased to introduce a series of innovative new produ...
JO MAJOR Gross margins improved for the fourth consecutive quarter and are up 13 percentage points from the s...
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