Sebastian Coe Quotes
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
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Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
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The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind
