We wanted to come because it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.


Carol Joyce

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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabi...
JOYCE BROTHERS
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeli...
JOYCE BROTHERS
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
JOYCE BROTHERS
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
JOYCE BROTHERS
Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they...
JOYCE BROTHERS
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barel...
JOYCE MEYER
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the...
JOYCE BROTHERS
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
JOYCE MAYNARD
We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.
JOYCE MEYER
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors...
RACHEL JOYCE
Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourse...
RACHEL JOYCE
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over ag...
RACHEL JOYCE
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that H...
RACHEL JOYCE
My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remem...
RACHEL JOYCE
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in l...
RACHEL JOYCE
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on ...
RACHEL JOYCE
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he w...
RACHEL JOYCE
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut nove...
RACHEL JOYCE
I have written stories since I was a child.
RACHEL JOYCE
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real ...
RACHEL JOYCE
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
RACHEL JOYCE
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
RACHEL JOYCE
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
RACHEL JOYCE
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find...
RACHEL JOYCE
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself ou...
RACHEL JOYCE
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our B...
RACHEL JOYCE
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walke...
RACHEL JOYCE
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'H...
RACHEL JOYCE
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: ...
RACHEL JOYCE
My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him w...
RACHEL JOYCE
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic...
RACHEL JOYCE
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many y...
RACHEL JOYCE
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag...
RACHEL JOYCE
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I ...
JOYCE MEYER
But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.
RACHEL JOYCE
It was not a life, if lived without love.
RACHEL JOYCE
Buy a book in brown paper
From Faber and Faber
To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being...
JOYCE GIRAUD
Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, ...
JOYCE GIRAUD
I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.
JOYCE GIRAUD
My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell ev...
JOYCE GIRAUD
I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were li...
JOYCE GIRAUD
I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over C...
JOYCE GIRAUD
Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful...
JOYCE GIRAUD
In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
JOYCE GIRAUD
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderfu...
JOYCE GIRAUD
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we b...
JOYCE GIRAUD
I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more vol...
JOYCE GIRAUD