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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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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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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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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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.
