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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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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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.
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Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
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If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
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I have a personality. The fans like a guy with personality.
