Sasha Cohen Quotes
It's when you don't win that you learn things about yourself. Everything I have gone through has made me who I am today.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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It's when you don't win that you learn things about yourself. Everything I have gone through has made me who I am today.
