Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Quotes
Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
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A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
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I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.
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Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.
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I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
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I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.
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I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
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I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
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I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!
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Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
