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 started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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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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My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
