Mason Cook Quotes
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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Look, stranger, on this island now The leaping light for your delight discovers, Stand stable here And silent be, That through the channels of the ear May wander like a river The swaying sound of the sea.
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This game is something Australians really look forward to.
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Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.'
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We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
