Harold Coffin Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Let us have peace.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing -
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
