Michael Gruber Quotes
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
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But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
