Cokie Roberts Quotes
There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
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Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
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At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
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There's a view in this country that everybody's going through what they're going through for the first time.
