Mason Cooley Quotes
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
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'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
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When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.
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Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
