Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

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• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

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• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

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• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

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• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

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• Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I have no privacy anymore.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

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• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
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• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
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• I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

  

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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
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• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  

  Jet Li
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• I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

  

  James P. Gorman
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• There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.

  

  Tony Blair
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• People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

  

  Caroline B. Cooney
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