Rachel Cohn Quotes
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.
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Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
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I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.