Gary Clark Jr. Quotes
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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If my parents were to hear that their son won an Academy Award, they'd roll over in their graves. I was the luckiest person, but that luck came through the grace of Muhammad Ali.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
