Juan Gris (José Victoriano González-Pérez) Quotes
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.
