David Cooperrider Quotes
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
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I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
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I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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Some movies are simply magical. You can't really put your finger on any particular reason behind its success.
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Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
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Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
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Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
