Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
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When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
