Jonathan Coe Quotes
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.
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To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.
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I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
