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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I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
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I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.
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As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
