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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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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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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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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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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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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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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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
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It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
