Jeff Giles Quotes
I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'
Quotes to Explore
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.
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To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'
