Caroline B. Cooney Quotes
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Quotes to Explore
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
