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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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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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.
