Cary Cooper Quotes
Fear itself motivates people in the U.S. - the fear that you could lose everything. That creates the best in American society, the inventiveness, but the moment the net is pulled out, it becomes a terrible jungle.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say 'f off'. But after a while you can get away with things.
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Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
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My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
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You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
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Fear itself motivates people in the U.S. - the fear that you could lose everything. That creates the best in American society, the inventiveness, but the moment the net is pulled out, it becomes a terrible jungle.
