Spalding Gray Quotes
When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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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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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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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 approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
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We do not want to come back with big order and signed protocol, but to hide our eyes in front of the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian industry.”
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.
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I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.
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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
