Joe Cowley Quotes
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
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While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.
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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I have a personality. The fans like a guy with personality.
