#shed

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#found #goes #longer #much #oneself

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#achievements #blessed #fog #great #great achievements

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#books #eight #first #historical #never

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books. ↗

— David Copperfield

#books #by the time #came #doing #easy

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished. ↗

— John Corbett

#auditioning #auditions #before #big #business

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#because #job #make #might #mine

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#banks #cars #could #drive-in #established

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#building #construction #does #failure #finished

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#had #here #i #instinct #just