Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I love being physical and acting at the same time.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
