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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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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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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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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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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It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
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There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
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You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.
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I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.
