Gabriel Mann Quotes
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.
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Everybody goes and sees 'Fantastic Four,' but nobody sees 'Sunshine.' I'd have a different career if people saw that.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
