"I get very weird and defensive about what……" — Joan Juliet Buck
"I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about."
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17 Quotes by Joan Juliet Buck
Joan Juliet Buck has 17 quotes on this site.
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With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious…
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Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.
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I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.
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The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it…
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I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think…
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I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that…
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I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.
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To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I…
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I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact…
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Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and…
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When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.
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I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies.…
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More Defensive Quotes
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I…
— Jo Brand
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
— Francesca Annis
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The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to…
— Bobby Knight
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
— Tex Winter
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Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made…
— Tex Winter
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
— Henri Nouwen
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If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
— Don Meyer
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I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that…
— Steve Nash
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