Yael Cohen Quotes
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I want to play interesting women.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
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I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
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There's eco-pragmatism, where you recognize, 'Yeah, we live on a planet that's permanently altered by humanity, and rather than seek to return to or preserve pure wilderness, we recognize that's an illusion, and we proceed under the new knowledge that we live, in fact, in a human-dominated planet.'
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I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
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I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.
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How do you support someone with cancer? How do you ask for the help you need?
