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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I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.
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I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
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I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.
