Dana Cowin Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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Society's needs come before the individuals needs.
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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.
