John Gourley Quotes
I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing. As a label, they seem to be great at growing bands rather than telling you how to do it.
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
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I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!
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I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.
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I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing. As a label, they seem to be great at growing bands rather than telling you how to do it.
