Nick Cohen Quotes
Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.
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Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
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I was just hoping that fatigue wasn't setting in from Friday's loss. Everybody played well and we made plays when we needed to.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.
