Gerry Cooney Quotes
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
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Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
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Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn’t get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums.
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I'm very happy alone.
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Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.
