John Gourley Quotes
I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.
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All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.
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It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
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I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
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I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.
