James E. Gunn Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
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I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.
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I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
