Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wanted so badly to be able to perform. So it doesn't hinder me sleeping at night that I don't have an Olympic medal.
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I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym... so I took his advice.
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I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
