Emory Cohen Quotes
I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning out for their Muslim brothers and sisters who are now being targeted.
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I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.
