"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

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Source : "The Book of Quotes". Book by Barbara Rowes, 1979.

Gary Gilmore

#Born Quotes #Sure Thing Quotes

“I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.”
“I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.”

Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.
“Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”
“My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.”
“We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.”
“Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.
“The public always picks quality.”
“It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.”

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