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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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.
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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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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.
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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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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
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It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
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I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
