James P. Gorman Quotes
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
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I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.
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...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
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Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
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Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
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Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
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If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be
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Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
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Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.
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Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.
