Neal Gabler Quotes
I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.
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A star needs all the rest she can get.
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When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
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I love to sing 'Stay' every night... because people sing along. And they do sing along - loudly!
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There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.
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I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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I'm an extreme workaholic.
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper perspective, then you're not going to succeed.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.
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I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."
