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.

Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas

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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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Know

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Hate
  • Choice
  • Just

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• 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.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Twitter
  • Awkward
  • Drums

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Done
  • High

• 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.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Act

• I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Child
  • Most
  • Brilliant

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Comfortable
  • How

• One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• A day on a film set is maddening.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Day
  • Film
  • Film Set

• During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Fashion

• I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Years

• The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Culture
  • Wanted
  • Media

• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Individual

• We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

  

  Andrew Taylor
  • Way
  • Details
  • Distract

• 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.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Way
  • Lays
  • Relentless