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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#benefits #citizens #ensure #entering #going

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed. ↗

— Joel Coen

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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#being #choose #come #design #different

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment. ↗

— Joel Coen

#birds #blood #bumper #car #flock

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#discussed #dozens #examples #intentions #knew

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#completeness #experience #half #immediately #other

On the other hand, always aim to be the best in what you do and give 100%. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#always #best #give #hand #other

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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