J. California Cooper Quotes
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
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I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
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Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
