Lester Cole Quotes
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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What you see is what you get.
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The reality is, I'm not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
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Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
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It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.
