Lynn Coady Quotes
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
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There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.
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Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
