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.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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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.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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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.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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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.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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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.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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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.
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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.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
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I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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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.
