James Gray Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.
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I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.
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All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
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As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special.
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I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
