Lynn Coady Quotes

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

Lynn Coady

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• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Work
  • Business
  • Trust

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Man
  • Turn
  • Pancakes

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Support
  • Friend
  • Organization

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Real
  • Change

• Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Character
  • Strong

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Job
  • Working
  • Open

• It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

  

  Beck
  • Life
  • Love
  • Try

• I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

  

  Frank Leslie
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Sunshine

• For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

  

  Carol Kane
  • Important
  • Writing

• Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Gentle

• No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Life
  • Marriage