Brad Cohen Quotes
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
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Is anything worth it?
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As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
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I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
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The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
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A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure.
