Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
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House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
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The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.
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I love 'Arrested Development.'
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The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
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I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
