Lynn Coady Quotes

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Lynn Coady

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Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

Jennifer Egan

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With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

Solange Knowles

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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

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I really like 'Project Runway.' I know it's reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.

Simon Helberg

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It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Rosanna Arquette

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Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Ry Cooder

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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

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Our time on Earth is so random.

Lisa Ling

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Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

Jean Chatzky

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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

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I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Dolly Parton

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Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

Delta Goodrem

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