Gallant Quotes
My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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I want to be my own person.
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I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.
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Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
