David Gross Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.
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Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
