E. Joseph Cossman Quotes
Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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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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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
