Malcolm Cowley Quotes
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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With exposure also comes more judgement and opinion so I think now is the time for me to just really solidify a safe space and be around people who are encouraging, supportive, and challenging in a healthy way. With what happened during the 2016 election, now is the time that we should feel our most brave and most fearless.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
