Edwin Louis Cole Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
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I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.
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That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.
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I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I'm auditioning for a role, when I'm putting myself on tape for something, I always consider what the hairstyle is going to be because it changes the way people perceive me.
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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
