Gary Jules Quotes
Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take on a life of their own. I can't even remember what I wrote some of them about now!
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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I lost my confidence.
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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My life was pretty rough.
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
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Twitter is the Devil's playground.
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Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
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No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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After 'Mandy Lane,' I didn't really know what to do because I didn't know anyone who'd made a feature yet.
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Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take on a life of their own. I can't even remember what I wrote some of them about now!
