Lynn Coady Quotes

I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

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• I really like performing for people.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
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• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
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• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
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• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
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• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
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• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

  

  Hank Johnson
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• My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try. Stupid War Selfish Believe Hero Kids Believe In Yourself People Trying Belief Speak Being Selfish Poor Little Kid My Hero Circumstances Belief In Self Able Hey Knowing Littles Said Self Stars Way Despite One Way Self Knowing Speak English

  

  Gene Simmons
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• We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.

  

  Craig Newmark
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• Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey

• It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

  

  Lisa Unger
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• I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

  

  Lynn Coady
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