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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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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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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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
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Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
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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.
