Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
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When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland's house every day. He was the DJ for my brother's rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim's DJ'ing and my brother's rapping, I'd be upstairs dancing.
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As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
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The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.
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It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
