Steve Coogan Quotes

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

Steve Coogan

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When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

Jennifer Coolidge

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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

John Henrik Clarke

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I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

Ann Rule

WomenMenYouBadSayAlways

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

Amanda Beard

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In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

Stewart Butterfield

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No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Shirley Manson

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I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.

Roger Rees

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I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Ruth Glick

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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

Matt Bomer

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Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

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Frank Mir is gonna be my toughest fight in my UFC career. It won't be easy.

Mirko Cro Cop

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Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.

Lorrie Fair

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