Stephen Gaghan Quotes
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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I don't do meetings.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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My head was always in books.
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We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.
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What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
