Lynn Coady Quotes
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
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So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
