John Gourley Quotes
We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
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There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
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I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.
