Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes
If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
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Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulder. Don't you know the hardest part is over?
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I am just a plain, common man.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
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If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
