John Gutfreund Quotes
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.
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I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
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I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
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I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
