Mason Cooley Quotes
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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.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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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.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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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.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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Life is God's art.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
