Mason Cooley Quotes
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You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.
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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.
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I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.
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Even boredom has its crises.
