Mason Cooley Quotes
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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.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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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.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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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.'
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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.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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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.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
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In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
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I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
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I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.
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I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
