James Gray Quotes
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I have a lot of energy. Energy's a very huge thing in our family. None of us need caffeine; we're just high-energy people.
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I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.
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I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.
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The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.
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Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
