Christian Cooke Quotes
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.
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All the makeup in the world won't make a difference without great skincare.
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I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.
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So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
