Spalding Gray Quotes
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Accord, n. Harmony.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story.
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I was a kid when I did the hit show 'Kasturi' in 2007. Maybe stardom went to my head and I thought I was bigger than I actually was. I took everything for granted.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.
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Not knowing what was then unfolding, I immediately contacted my office and canceled my flight, ... From then on, we were in an alert mode for any strike that could have occurred in our county.
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He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
