James Gray Quotes

The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

James Gray

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In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

Jimmy Graham

LifeSkyMy LifeCeilingLiterally

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

Jessica Szohr

LifePersonalTalkThingsStay

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

Statik Selektah

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When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

Steven Price

TimeGrowing UpStartLovedYouWay

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Tori Amos

AloneMeWritingPlayLivingRoom

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Tracy Morgan

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert Bork

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So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that.

Michel Faber

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The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

Julia Stiles

RelationshipTogetherTestTrue

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Allen Ginsberg

ThoughtsSayingThinkThinkingEmpty

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

Alison Mosshart

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.

Philip Pullman

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