F. Gary Gray Quotes
My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
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I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
