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'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.
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My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
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All my life I've prayed the Lord's Prayer, but I've never prayed, 'Give me this day my daily bread.' It is always, 'Give us this day our daily bread.' Bread and life are shared realities. They do not happen in isolation. Civilization is an unnatural act. We have to make it happen, you and I, together with all the other strangers.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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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.
