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• The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Memories, Coffee

  Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”

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• New Rule: You're never going to pick up women at a coffee shop pretending to be working on your laptop. You don't look like you're sensitive, you look like you're homeless.The last guy to pick up a chick with an Apple was Adam. And when you sit across from another dateless loser with a laptop, it still doesn't look like you're working--it looks like you're playing Battleship.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Apples, Guy

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.65, Penguin

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• I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

  Donald Miller

  Coffee, Space, Community

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

  Garrison Keillor

  Travel, Art, Hero

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• The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.

  Naomi Novik

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please—let it be him.

  Julie James

  Coffee, Heart, Bars

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.78, Penguin

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• My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.

  Garrison Keillor

  Coffee, Weekend, Gps

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• It makes me happy that people recognise me and want to click pictures with me. But sometimes, I want to be a common person. I want to go to a coffee shop and just chill. I miss driving my car with the windows rolled down.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Coffee, People, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Writing, Order

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Jeans, Fancy

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Fog, Church

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• In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Coffee, America, Diners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

  Coleman Barks

  Coffee, Book, Oil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Genius, Classic

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in LA, where it feels like you walk into a coffee shop and you see 15 laptops with screenplays being written.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Coffee, Laptops, Tvs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  Lev Grossman

  Coffee, Writing, Games

  "The Exchange: Lev Grossman" by Andrea Walkman, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.

  Katie Leclerc

  Jobs, Coffee, Years

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.

  Tony Vincent

  Coffee, Guitar, Play

  "A Conversation with singer Tony Vincent: Part Two". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Couple, Coffee, Writing

  "Exclusive Interview with Bong Joon-ho" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 07, 2007.

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• I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

  Tig Notaro

  Coffee, Making Money, Babysitting

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Coffee, Writing

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• I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

  Ben Folds

  Block, Coffee, Nashville

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• I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

  Matisyahu

  Coffee, Home, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

  Jo Nesbo

  Coffee, Writing, Airports

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• I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Coffee, Home, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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