Scott Cohen Quotes
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
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Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.
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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
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It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.
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That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
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I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
