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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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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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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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
