#person

Duty is not collective; it is personal. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#duty #personal

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#details #gets #his #life #own

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#back #believe #better #cruelty #life

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#feel #first #like #person #readers

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#end #first #how #life #person

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

#best #ever #got #guess #had

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cake #center #comedian #eat #family

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#different things #holding #lot #only #personality