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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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.
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I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘‘Don’t push it, Claire.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
