Carolyn Cooke Quotes
I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.
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The world needs some help.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
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I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.
