Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
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I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.
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The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.
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My life is good, so I ain’t worrying about it. … Well, good luck.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
