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'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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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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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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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 believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
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I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.
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Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.
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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.
