Mason Cooley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
-
All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
-
They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
-
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
-
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
-
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
-
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
-
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
-
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
-
A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
-
The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
-
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
-
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
-
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
-
“If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.
-
I wanted to be a comedian.
-
I really enjoy seeing people interpret it, and what meaning they find in my music. My brain is just an echo chamber of my own thoughts and most of them are crazy, so I like to hear other people's opinions. It's nice.
-
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
-
In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.
-
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
