Gary Sinise Quotes
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.

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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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My father was a lawyer.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to 'Good Will Hunting,' ... It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.
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Looking back, my style was pretty much Marvel house style - very large, thick characters, very musclebound, not very flexible.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.