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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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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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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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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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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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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Rather nostalgically, I sometimes think I could still play Juliet. Inside, I'm still an incorrigible romantic.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.
