Leslie Cockburn Quotes

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Leslie Cockburn

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Proud
  • Growth

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Favorite
  • Far

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Scary
  • Living

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• I never have celebrity crushes.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Never
  • Celebrity
  • Crushes

• In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Priorities

• If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Food
  • Need
  • Gym

• I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Family
  • Passion

• She says noWhen she means yesAnd what she wantsYou know that I can't guess.When we want moreYou know we ask for lessSuch is the language of love...

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • She

• Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]

  

  Larry Wall
  • School
  • Simplicity

• Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time
  • Thanks

• Gcc is crap.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

  

  Brandon Stanton

• We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Space

• In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

  

  William Godwin
  • Question
  • Rule
  • Understood

• It’s a shame really because if a band or an artist doesn’t have a hit straight away the label will drop them and go and look for another act, so you don’t get bands developing in the same way as we did.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Artist
  • Hit
  • Developing

• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Pictures
  • Doctrines
  • Impressionism

• I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

  

  Leslie Cockburn