James Gray Quotes

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

James Gray

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LoveGreatHatePeopleEgoYou

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

FatherColdRememberFirstMark

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

John Frankenheimer

BusinessMyselfThinkWantMovies

I've never been paid by or colluded with any Russian to hack the D.N.C., to create search-engine optimization tools to cause Trump's positives up and Hillary's negatives up. I've never been to Prague.

Michael Cohen

ToolsCreateNeverUpPaidBeen

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Stella Young

DeathEvenTreatmentMedically

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Sumner Redstone

GrowthDayThinkSlowWallStreet

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Simone Weil

LifeHistoryImaginationInfluence

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

Tom Catena

GreatMedicalFightSchoolParents

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

Johnny Mathis

RomanticOutSingJustSongsSet

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Dominique Dawes

WorkLoveCelebrateEnjoyYoung

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

Dick Thornburgh

GovernmentLawConsentOnlyLocally

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

DeRay Mckesson

ChangeI AmGoalMoreProtestAm

I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley

SpaceLaughterPeopleOthersHang

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