Anthony Gonzalez Quotes
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.
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When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
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Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.
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I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.
