Elliot Cowan quotes

“As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.”
-- Elliot Cowan

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.”
-- Elliot Cowan

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“Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.”
-- Elliot Cowan

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“What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.”
-- Elliot Cowan

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”

“To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.”

“I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.”

“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”

“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”

“The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

“For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’”