Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands
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We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.
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There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
