Caroline B. Cooney Quotes
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
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Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
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Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
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I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.
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My goal is to give students a real-life picture of what this life is like. Students can really decide whether this is what they want to do.
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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
