Gerry Spence Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.
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I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
