Gary Sheffield Quotes
I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
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I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
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For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
