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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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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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
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Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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Even boredom has its crises.
