Christian Cooke Quotes
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
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I am a Buddhist.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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If a guy won't commit, he's a player.
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Never argue with a profit.
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Free time is the enemy of progress. Because free time. Sitting around. Is not doing.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.
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With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
