Mason Cooley Quotes
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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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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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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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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Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
