Steve Coogan (Stephen John Coogan) Quotes
Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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My body and my will are one.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.
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But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.
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From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.
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No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
