Gary Jennings Quotes
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
