Jonathan Coe Quotes
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
Quotes to Explore
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
