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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
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  • Light
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• Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Fitness
  • Mental
  • Strengths

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
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• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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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!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Amazing
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• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
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  • Angeles
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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.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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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.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
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• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
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• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
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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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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  • Control
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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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
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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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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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.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
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• I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Work

• If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

  

  Beatrice Webb
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• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  

  Victor Borge
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• It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

  

  David Guetta
  • People
  • Success
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• One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.

  

  David Garrow
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  • Up
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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.

  

  Gary Ross
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