Jonathan Coe Quotes
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
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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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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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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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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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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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He left a corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked 'Unknown,' and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in 'honoring the memory' of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that. But let me tell you about myself. I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.
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The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.
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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
