David B. Coe Quotes
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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I wish my mother could have seen the America we’re going to build together. An America, where if you do your part, you reap the rewards. Where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind. An America where a father can tell his daughter: yes, you can be anything you want to be. Even President of the United States.
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A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.
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The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not OK. Love is something that's really serious and private that you can't try to claim or know.
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Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
