Mason Cooley Quotes

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

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• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• Death, only, renders hope futile.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Futile

• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • You
  • Learn
  • Actor

• In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Good
  • Way
  • Fast

• You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Lose

• It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Up
  • Game

• Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Heart
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Color

• A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Bold

• You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up
  • Heaven

• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Dad

• I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

  

  Toby McKeehan
  • People
  • Music
  • Truth

• If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

  

  Mason Cooley