Denton Cooley Quotes
I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
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One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.
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There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
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I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
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My wife needs her freedom just like me.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
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I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
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I remember reading a book called, "From Niggas To Gods, Part One" by Andre Akil; the book was so easy to read, it was in capital letters with exclamation marks because Akil was screaming at us. It was about getting out of the mindset that this system has put you in. This mindset that makes you feel like your circumstances are permanent and wherever you're born is where you're going to end up. You have to realize who you are.
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The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
