Emory Cohen Quotes
My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
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There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
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I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
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My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.
