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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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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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 have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
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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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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.
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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
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I'm getting better and better each year that I'm playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient - something that is key to our game.
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It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can't make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that's true, that means it should be more expensive. Not 'should' in any moral sense, but simply because that's how the principle of supply and demand works.
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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.
