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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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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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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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
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It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
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In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others and give hope to others.
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I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
