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Many great things indeed have been achieved by those who chose not to leap into the mainstream


Joan Mondale

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JOAN JETT For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life m...
JOAN MIRO I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of ...
JOAN KIRNER The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'...
JOAN HICKSON You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost ha...
JOAN BAEZ Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
JOAN MIRO When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha...
JOAN ARMATRADING When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER