Mason Cooley Quotes
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My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
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The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
