Lynn Coady Quotes
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
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I am not honest.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
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I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
