Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.
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I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.
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Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.
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You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
