James Cosmo Quotes

I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Idea
  • Competition
  • Place

• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Corporate
  • Boards

• I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Golf
  • Ever
  • Houston

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Free
  • Design
  • Sky

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Family
  • Kids

• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Success
  • Childhood
  • Professional

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Trying
  • City

• I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

  

  Kevin Macdonald

• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Action
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• It eventually ends, and that's what I think a lot of athletes forget. It's 10 years after the Olympics, and you won the Olympics, and that's great, but no one cares.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Great

• If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Time
  • Ravel

• I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Time
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