Joshua Cohen (Joshua Aaron Cohen) Quotes
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.Joshua Cohen
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
Barry Humphries -
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Bayard Rustin -
Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
G. W. Bailey -
Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
Valeria Mazza -
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
Iman -
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike -
I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern -
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
Walter Kirn -
I have an incredibly high metabolism.
Zoe Sugg
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
Calvin Johnson -
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Kate Millett -
I don't need adult supervision.
Pat Paulsen -
I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner -
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Patrick Dempsey -
I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.
Felix Hernandez
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It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
Rakul Preet Singh -
America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
Sukarno -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle -
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
Josh Hutcherson -
I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
Flume -
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
Joshua Cohen