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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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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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.
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If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.
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Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
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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.
