Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.


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JOANNA CAMPBELL
You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to...
JOANNA GARCIA
In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. Whil...
JOANNA LUMLEY
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM
Typing was, as the placement agency lady had assured me, like riding a bike: my fingers remembered t...
JOANNA RAKOFF
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are comp...
JOANNA NEWSOM
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
JOANNA KRUPA
One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES
I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don...
JOANNA CASSIDY
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
JOANNA RUSS
There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually...
JOANNA LUMLEY
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS
Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old characte...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all...
JOANNA LUMLEY
There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS
I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is th...
JOANNA LUMLEY
There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY
I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES
I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o...
JOANNA LUMLEY
In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY
Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY
One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA
It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food eve...
JOANNA LUMLEY
It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS
If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS
I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS
What did we talk about?

I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got c...
JOANNA RUSS
A pretty woman, not a bother? As far as he knew, that was the very definition of the word.
JOANNA SHUPE
If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty, either.
JOANNA GAINES
I always thought that the “thriving” would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned ...
JOANNA GAINES
Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or ti...
JOANNA GAINES
It's delicious,’ he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die wit...
JOANNA MAZURKIEWICZ
My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when ...
JOANNA CONNORS
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or p...
JOANNA RUSS
Horse: So tell me, brother. How many times you seen The Notebook? 'Cause that's information the boys...
JOANNA WYLDE
Horse: Fuckin' knight in shining armor. Might wanna trade your bike in for a pretty pink unicorn to ...
JOANNA WYLDE
Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
JOANNA WEAVER
The company has been fined by the Council of Labor for its wrongdoing. Now why has it dared to do th...
JOANNA LEI
The percentage of US cattle selected for testing is very limited at less than 1 percent. How can the...
JOANNA LEI
I figure as long as it's not just raining in my lane, then all eight women will have to go through t...
JOANNA HAYES