Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

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• Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Said

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Edge

• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Beliefs

• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Real
  • Success

• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  

  Kate Burton
  • School
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Education
  • Idea
  • Changed

• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  

  George Eliot
  • Art
  • Father
  • Prayer

• Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

  

  Andy Cole
  • Football
  • Player
  • Competition

• My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Job
  • Wife
  • Confidence

• You have to be careful of the advice you take.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Advice
  • Take
  • Careful

• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Script