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Mason Cooley Quotes

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1927 - 2002

Topics

Writing Reading Thinking Talking

God ain't got nothing to do with winning a damn football game.

God Football Winning Game Damn Got

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

Fat Jokes Sure Weight Sensitive

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

Journey Silver Some Oxford Takes

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high.

Time People Wave Employees You Flag

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Day Control Story Thinking Living

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

Good Childhood People Think You Say

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Music Experience Empathy Singing Our

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Detail Small Book Black American

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Innovation Progress School People

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Jonathan Tropper

Movies Kind Hand Try Write Pretty

We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!

Jonathan Van Ness

Best Trying Know Just

Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.

Christopher Lloyd

Time Imagination Travel Man Energy

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