Gary Hallinan (Gary Holland) Quotes
The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I'm pretty boring.
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it.
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Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what your income is.
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But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
