Gabriel Campisi Quotes
Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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The FBI has always supported big business and big government.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
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Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.
