Jonathan Coe Quotes
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
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I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
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Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
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I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
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The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
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It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
