Adam Cohen Quotes
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
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Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'
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The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.
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I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
