Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Discrimination

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Evil
  • Series
  • Lucas

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Road
  • Yourself
  • Take Care

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Home
  • Car

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

  

  J. Cole
  • Trying
  • School
  • True

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Simple
  • Desert

• I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Disappointment
  • Rejection

• Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • People
  • Good
  • Religion

• I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Divorce

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Daughter

• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • People
  • Training
  • Drama

• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rock

• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Element