Mason Cooley Quotes

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Mason Cooley

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• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Changes

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Words

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

  

  Don Lemon
  • Game

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

  

  Charles Trippy
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hard

• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Important
  • Country
  • Culture

• There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

  

  Jeri Ryan
  • Believe

• If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • Law