Lynn Coady Quotes
A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
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Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
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A novelist's sense that he or she is 'above' a certain genre mainly comes out of the notion that the genre is somehow a debased version of his or her preferred form.
