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Lynn Coady Quotes

We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase - long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative.

Lynn Coady

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 24, 1970

Topics

Feel Enough Long Thoughtful Canada

I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.

Melvin Van Peebles

School Me Country Hollywood Never

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Robert Scheer

War People Free Stand You Know

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

Girl Without Within Ambitious Many

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

Anita Roddick

Queen Award Body Always Got Been

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

Respect Practice Democracy Think Own

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Mitch McConnell

Justice President Right Supreme Court

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Diplo

Money Weekend Year Sometimes More

I knew I wanted to act since I was 10, but I didn't actually start acting until I was in high school. My favorite play was 'Lilies of the Field.'

Dennis Haysbert

School Start High School Acting Play

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Dhani Harrison

Work Friend Doing You Cinema Know

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

Deborah Joy Winans

Women Faith Job Country First Out

I'm not afraid to say 'Jesus Christ,' and I'm not afraid to speak of those who worship him. After all, Jesus preached about love.

David Seltzer

Love Speak Say Jesus Christ Worship

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

Chris Pine

Day Job End Of The Day End You Down