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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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 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 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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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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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.
