Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes
Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.
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My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.
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I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.
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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
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Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
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What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.
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While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh, shut up, you medieval drama queen" - Claire
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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Now that, my friends, is what we vampires call a good exit.
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Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
