Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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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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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
