Gary Ross Quotes
We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
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Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
