Anderson Cooper Quotes
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.
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Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do.
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You don't want to overthink; you want to just stick with what you've been given.
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Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
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I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
