Emory Cohen Quotes
I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
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Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
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As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'
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Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
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I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.
