Elliot Cowan Quotes
I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I don't recall that I have said - and I don't think that I really feel - that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood - or even that it would be desirable - to have a single government elected by the people of the world.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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Winning a world title has always been the dream and ultimate goal.
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Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.
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I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
