Alistair Cooke Quotes
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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Let us have peace.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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There are days he just reads my mind.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.