Gary Hume Quotes
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
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There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
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It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
