Chris Cooper Quotes
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
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When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
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Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
