Stephen Gaghan Quotes

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

Stephen Gaghan

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • People
  • Actions
  • Secrets

• If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Body
  • Something
  • Dangerous

• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Government
  • First
  • Surrender

• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Fun
  • Future
  • Past

• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  

  Gen Urobuchi
  • Soul
  • Happiness
  • Choice

• I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Death
  • Individual

• It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

  

  Stephen Gaghan
  • Trying
  • Care
  • Chance