Mason Cooley Quotes
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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Age for me is just a number.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
