Gary Allan Quotes
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
