Mason Cooley Quotes
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
