Carrie Coon (Carrie Alexandra Coon) Quotes
I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
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What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.
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Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
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Working in TV films has a lot of advantages over the daily grind of doing an hour series.
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In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
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With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
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I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
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Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.
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I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.
