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How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.


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JOYCE GIRAUD In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'past...
JOYCE GIRAUD My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation....
JOYCE GIRAUD 'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a rep...
JOYCE GIRAUD I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I creat...
JOYCE GIRAUD I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My o...
JOYCE GIRAUD Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.
JOYCE GIRAUD I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies,...
JOYCE GIRAUD I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want a...
JOYCE GIRAUD I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
JOYCE GIRAUD I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born...
JOYCE GIRAUD I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.
JOYCE DIDONATO The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w...
WILLIAM JOYCE I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like m...
WILLIAM JOYCE We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus a...
JOYCE MEYER There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's wh...
JOYCE MEYER Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of ...
JAMES JOYCE Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giant...
JAMES JOYCE To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life.
JAMES JOYCE Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can...
JAMES JOYCE I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink ...
JOYCE MEYER When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and no...
JAMES JOYCE Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an ...
JOYCE MEYER The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is...
JOYCE KILMER He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCE One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
JOYCE MEYER Today is a brand new beginning for me!
JOYCE MEYER