Mason Cooley Quotes
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
Mason Cooley
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
Omari Hardwick
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
Najib Mikati
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.
Bess Myerson
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To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
Amy Poehler
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
Mason Cooley
