Gabriel Marcel Quotes
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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The world is too violent right now.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
