Jonathan Coe Quotes

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Jonathan Coe

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PoliticsWritingStartYouHuman

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

Jeremy London

FriendsMostImpressedThemOverly

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

Amir Khan

DisciplineFightThinkYouStreet

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

Steve Forbert

TryingNewAnybody

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Stephen Malkmus

MeSpeakYouPersonalAlwaysSing

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Rupert Friend

FatherBusinessMusiciansFriendsUs

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

Jared Kushner

FatherDirtyFavoriteDozenMovie

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

Don Hewitt

ThreadNeedleHePhrase

We have to talk a little trash to sell fights, talk more, because we know we will profit more from that. It's important.

Jose Aldo

ProfitKnowImportantTrashTalk

I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

VoteDutyJuryJury Duty

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

Clint Smith

FocusEffortTeamWinWorldVictory

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

Bresha Webb

FeelMissionYouSomethingMake

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

Phylicia Rashad

TimeNoiseWatchBecauseJustWhile

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