Lynn Coady Quotes
Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
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Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.
