Lynn Coady Quotes
Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassailable, like masculine fortresses. It's like how the 9/11 firemen were venerated.
