Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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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.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Garrison Keillor
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
Otto Penzler
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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.
C. V. Raman
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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.
Caitlin Doughty
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
Zosia Mamet
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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.
Fidel Castro
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Jordan
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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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.
Dalai Lama
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The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
Ai Weiwei
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I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
Coleman Randolph Hawkins
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The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
Debbie Harry
Blondie
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As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.
Louis Bacon
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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
Julia Roberts
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You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
