Jonathan Coe Quotes
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
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I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.
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When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
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In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.
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She says noWhen she means yesAnd what she wantsYou know that I can't guess.When we want moreYou know we ask for lessSuch is the language of love...
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Widowed wife and wedded maid.
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Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.
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If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
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I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
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The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
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A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on.
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
