Cy Coleman Quotes
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
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When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
