Jim Coleman Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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I find most children quite inspiring.
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The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
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Those who live are those who fight.
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And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
