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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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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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
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Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
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The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it.
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And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!
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Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
