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Joshua Cohen Quotes

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1980

Topics

Ask Answers Anything Books Advance

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

Laugh Comedy Doing Uncomfortable You

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

Great Me Skiing Feel Legs Workout

I'm typically not a heels person.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Music Yourself Think Name Doing You

I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.

Name Loved Know Right Playing Going

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

Robert Gottlieb

Black Blood Swan

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Evil Who Unwillingly

I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he's faced with a decision on the Bay of Pigs, with the C.I.A. and the military giving him data, and it turns out very badly.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Service Decision Think Giving Data

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

Rhetoric Republican Democrat Like

I've never stopped learning.

Learning Never Stopped

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Alfred North Whitehead

You Top Average Bottom Close Just

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Life Nature Death Society You Body

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