Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.
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I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.
