Mason Cooley Quotes
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.
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People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
