Yael Cohen Quotes
Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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We all need a firm sense of identity.
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I really do know football.
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Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
