Courteney Cox Quotes
A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.
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The money that government spends is your money, not government's, and you know how to spend it better.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I'd be on unemployment.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
