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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The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
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We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
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I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.
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Education is the most critical tool for transforming individuals and spurring growth and development.
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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.
