Steve Coogan (Stephen John Coogan) Quotes

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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  • Find

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

  

  Karyn Parsons
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• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
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• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
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• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
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• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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  • Computers

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
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• Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

  

  Lake Bell
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• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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  • Me

• You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.

  

  Jane Austen
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• It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Up
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• I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?'

  

  Edward Lear
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• The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

  

  Max Weber

• Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.

  

  William Wickenden
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• Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

  

  Steve Coogan
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