John Gallagher, Jr. Quotes
I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
-
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
-
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
-
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
-
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
-
There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
-
Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
-
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
-
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
-
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
-
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
-
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
-
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
-
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
-
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
-
Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
-
Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
-
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
-
I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
-
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
-
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
-
I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.
