Spalding Gray Quotes
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.
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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.
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There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
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That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way.
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Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.
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I love using a targeted acquisition approach in conjunction with a business that has a clear strategy and strong organic growth.
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The thing that people don't realize is that this business revolves around us, whether we like it or not, ... they're getting signed. They pay my bills.
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
