Rita Coolidge Quotes
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
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It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.
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I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
