Gary Cole Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.
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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.
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You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
