Jeff Gutt Quotes
I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.
