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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We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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For those of us who want to accomplish something for the country, we need to come up with a list ... of anti-spending reforms which are locked into place so we are dramatically lowering the appetite of the federal government over the future.
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Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
