William Bourke Cockran Quotes
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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It's not about the money with me.
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I write what I write.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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Government is not show business.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
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Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
