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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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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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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Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
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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.
