Mason Cooley Quotes
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
