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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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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You can’t contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them.
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If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.
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The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
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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.
