Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
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When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
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I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
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Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.
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I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.
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Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
