Adam Cohen Quotes
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
