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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If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
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That's the benefit of having a teammate like T.J. who can penetrate and pitch the ball. I told him, if you get the ball to me, I'll make the shot. It was a great pass and follow through.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
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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.
