Jonathan Coleman Quotes
I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.Jonathan Coleman
Quotes to Explore
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
Paige Craig -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini -
The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
Camilla Belle -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
Ilan Stavans -
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel -
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Earl Weaver -
Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
Barack Obama -
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
Maeve Binchy -
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant -
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
Jacki Weaver -
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph Adams Cram -
Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
Tali Lennox
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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
Patrick Lencioni -
Belief is thought at rest.
Larry Harvey -
When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.
Martin Henderson -
It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.
Mary Schapiro -
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
Tony Kushner -
I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.
Jonathan Coleman