James Gray Quotes
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.
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I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.
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When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.
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Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
