Mason Cooley Quotes

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Mason Cooley

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• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Why
  • Pretty

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Together
  • Cardio
  • Kickboxing

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Father
  • Death

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Fly
  • Europe
  • Event

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Temple

• My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Government
  • Like
  • Find

• For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

  

  David Copperfield

• Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • Writing

• People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Live
  • Kids

• At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Up
  • Art
  • College

• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Art