Cosima Spender Quotes
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
-
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
-
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
-
Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
-
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
-
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
-
You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
-
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
-
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
-
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
-
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
-
The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
-
I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
-
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
-
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
-
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
-
Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
-
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
-
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
-
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
-
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.
-
I?m living proof that toxic gas was not dropped on us that day. Nobody showed any signs of exposure to toxic gas.
-
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
