Gary Ross Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
