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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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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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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Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
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I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.
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I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
