James F. Cooper Quotes
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.
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I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
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We generally did not talk about the stock market very much at the Fed.
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
