Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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I love recording music.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning.
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Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
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I've never seen 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
