Geoffrey Gorer Quotes
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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The blue guitar And I are one.
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Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
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'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.
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I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?
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The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill-to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.
