Gary Cole Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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I am very much a Republican.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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Not too many years back, 12 by 14 was considered the master bedroom,
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Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.
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I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
