Ellar Coltrane Quotes
It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
Quotes to Explore
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.
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I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
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It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
