Jerry Gillies Quotes
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
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Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
