Chris Cooper Quotes
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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I'm very candid.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.
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Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.
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Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
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Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought this decision, not to accept the compromise, was so important. There wasn't one letter I have gotten so far that said we should have accepted the compromise - not one.
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As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
