Alastair Cook Quotes
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
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You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
