Cobi Jones Quotes
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
Quotes to Explore
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
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I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
