Mason Cooley Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.
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I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
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Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
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Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
