James Gray Quotes
I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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I enjoyed it from a very early age. When I had to make my own living after college, I decided to give doing what I enjoyed most a shot as a profession. It worked out and I’ve never had to 'work' for a living since. If I hadn’t gotten so lucky, there were plenty of options open to me being, after all, a young educated white male in America.
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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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When you know you have great support from the studio, that's a great feeling, and when it's the creative support, that's great.
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I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
