James Gray Quotes
The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
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That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts.
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It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.
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The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.
