John Gourley Quotes
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.
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I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
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I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.
