Gary Gilmore Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.
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I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.
