Lynn Coady Quotes

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

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• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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  • Age

• Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Girlfriend

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
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  • High
  • Constitution

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
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  • War
  • Happy

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Long
  • Write

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
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  • Important
  • Wisdom

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Long
  • Book

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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  • Long
  • Dream

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
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  • Play
  • Start

• I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Long
  • Way
  • City

• This necessary spending should not, however, jeopardize the president' long-term deficit-reduction goals.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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  • Goals
  • President

• He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Tears
  • Tight
  • Bottled

• In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Hero

• Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Term

• When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Long
  • Relationship