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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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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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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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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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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I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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Obviously, it was a very conscious decision not to go down the same route we'd travelled before. In retrospect I don't think OK Computer sounded that much different to The Bends but this one does - it's a lot more textural and unlike anything we've done before.
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I would never be her mate in a million years! Carla's a nightmare and annoys the hell out of me. She's the type of person who creates drama wherever she goes, and I'm not like that at all. Plus, she'd probably try to steal my fella!
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I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.
