Gary Sheffield Quotes
Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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The way we do things is to begin.
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The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
