Chris Cooper Quotes
At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I know I look super young.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Very early on in the process of trying to sell 'The Summer Prince,' I was told, 'Slavery seems to be very important to this society - is that on purpose?' Well, duh.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
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At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.
