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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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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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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It began to worry me that I could never possibly settle in England now, not after Tokyo nude-shows and sliced green chillies, brown children sluicing at the road-pump, the air-conditioned hum in bedrooms big as ballrooms, negligible income-tax, curry tiffins, being the big man in the big car, the bars of all the airports of Africa and the East.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
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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.
