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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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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The best quote about songwriting I ever heard, that I borrow to tell people, was from John Lennon, that it’s like a sculpture. You look at this block of stone and imagine that you can see some form within it, and you just keep chipping away until it is revealed.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
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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.
