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 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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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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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
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I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
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INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
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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.
