James Gray Quotes
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
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Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.
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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.
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My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line.
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There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
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Older women have always been attracted to me.
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I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.
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All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
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Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
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My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I'll never be able to make this a business built on singles. But this is real money for us....
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There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
