Steve Coogan (Stephen John Coogan) Quotes
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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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.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
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The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
