Gary Owens Quotes
I was very excited when I saw it and I went through it with my girlfriend and kid and we read the deals and was quite amazed by it.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
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There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
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I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.
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Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.
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I was very excited when I saw it and I went through it with my girlfriend and kid and we read the deals and was quite amazed by it.
