Jonathan Coe Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
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The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.
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I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.
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They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
