David Cooperrider Quotes
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Being evil is easy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
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Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
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President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.
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Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
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Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
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We live in the world our questions create.
