T Cooper Quotes

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

There was only so much television you could do.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.