Anat Cohen Quotes
There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
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The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.
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Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.
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When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.
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Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.
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...Take this all of you and eat it. This is my body which will be given up for you...Old words; old rituals. But they still made sound commercial sense.Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.
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I was kind of a tomboy.
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If I want any shot at getting on the floor, I gotta know what I'm doing defensively.
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I had a dream. And it came true.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
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There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.
