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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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
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Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered.
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In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.
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I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.
