Mason Cooley Quotes
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.
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In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
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One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
