Coy Bowles Quotes
I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I know what poverty is.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.
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I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
