Lynn Coady Quotes

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

Lynn Coady

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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

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You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

Ronny Chieng

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My philosophy is to live below your means.

Russell Hornsby

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Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

Mickey Rourke

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Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

Miguel Ferrer

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I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.

Diana Gabaldon

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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Drew Barrymore

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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Pierre Schaeffer

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I would really love to work with Max Martin.

Poppy

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I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.

Peter Beard

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To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

Tim Wise

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If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Noam Chomsky

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