Mason Cooley Quotes
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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'When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.'
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
