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

• A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Strength

• While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betting in that it attracts many of the same type of people who would otherwise choose to bet on sports.

  

  Adam Silver
  • People
  • Sports
  • Daily

• We're quick to describe politicians whose views we find extreme or whose behavior seems odd as 'crazy,' and perhaps anyone who runs for president in some sense is. But I've long wondered whether Newt Gingrich merits that designation in a more clinical sense.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Long
  • Crazy

• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Singing
  • Laugh
  • River

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

  

  Leslie Cockburn