Caroline B. Cooney Quotes
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
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You've got half the room going totally crazy, wild, they loved everything, they wanna do something great for our country, and you have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news, like that, they were like death, and un-American, un-American. Somebody said treasonous, I mean, yeah I guess, why not? Can we call that treason, why not?
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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
