Gayle Rankin Quotes
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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At a horror movie, you can see other people dealing with the scary things. They can bolster you. You can think, 'Okay, if that guy can deal with it, I can deal with it.' There are lessons to be learned there, as opposed to having a frivolous popcorn experience. I think some of this stuff is good for your soul.
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When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
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More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
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I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
