F. Gary Gray Quotes
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
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I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
