Gary Cole Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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I am very much a Republican.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
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I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
