Bradley Cooper Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
