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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Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
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I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.
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I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
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I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
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I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
