Gary Allan Quotes
When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
Quotes to Explore
-
My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
-
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
-
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
-
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
-
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
-
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
-
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
-
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
-
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
-
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
-
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
-
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
-
Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
-
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
-
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
-
My mother taught me to read.
-
I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
-
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.
-
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
-
When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
