Irvin S. Cobb Quotes
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
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I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
