James F. Cooper Quotes
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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My family is big, complicated, and beautiful - and keeps me smiling and whole. It's so important to have family, whether it's biological family, good friends, foster families, or a group of aunties who are raising you. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
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The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
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From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
