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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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
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We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.
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Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
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Facts are not interesting to me.
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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
