Jeff Cohen Quotes
It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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It was fun being an actor, but by the time college rolled around, I was ready to try some new things. By the time I graduated, I realized I enjoyed having a normal life and I never went back.
