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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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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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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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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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.
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I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
