Yael Cohen Quotes
I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life.
