Harold Coffin Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
