Amanda Coplin Quotes

The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand

Amanda Coplin

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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Long
- Country
- High
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Think
- Government
- Easy
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

Gail Carson Levine
- Mistakes
- Very
- Scale
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Rachel Brosnahan
- Want
- Competition
- Lose
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

Dan Phillips
- Dance
- Knowing
- Taught
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

Laura Wade
- Life
- Die
- Taken