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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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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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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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
