Caroline B. Cooney Quotes
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
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I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.
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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
