Gerald May Quotes
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
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You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
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Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.
