Mason Cooley Quotes
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
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We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
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While there's life, there's fear.
