James Gray Quotes
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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Maybe I am just a jerk.
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On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.
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My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'
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I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
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I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.
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My mother always helped me because she was kind of a research fanatic. When she would write a screenplay, there would be so much research all over the walls. And so when I started working as an actress, I would do the same thing. She instilled in me a love of taking everything very seriously. It didn't matter what it was.
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Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
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The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
