Mason Cooley Quotes
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!
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I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
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If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
