Mason Cooley Quotes
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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Where the remote Bermudas ride,In th' ocean's bosom unespied.
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What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
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No matter what you think of David Koresh or the people that died there, they died for what they believed in. And that's more than I can say for a lot of people.
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Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
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The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
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Make your film for the least amount you can.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Businesses in my constituency want help to address the skills mismatch at local level which leaves employers with staff shortages and young people without jobs. They want access to reliable sources of finance, including a network of local banks.
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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
