Gabriel Mann Quotes
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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I have no one style.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.