Elliot Cowan Quotes

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

Elliot Cowan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 9, 1976

Topics

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We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.

Johann Lamont

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The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Stephen Kinzer

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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Sting

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A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.

Shonda Rhimes

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I am proud to serve on the House Intelligence Committee, and every day, I see the lifesaving work of our men and women in uniform.

Mike Pompeo

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I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry.

Lou Barlow

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I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Loni Anderson

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But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

Bruce McCulloch

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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Kenneth L. Pike

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I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.

Kenneth Lonergan

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I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.

Kimberley Nixon

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