Gary Ross Quotes
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns, three months of bank statements, all sorts of credit card information.
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Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
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I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.
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I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
