Ed Gordon Quotes
Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January 2017 and that might be an interesting story to tell.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.
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I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.
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I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
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The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.
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When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
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Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January 2017 and that might be an interesting story to tell.
