Elliot Cowan Quotes
I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.
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A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
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I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
