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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.


Gary Oldman

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GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli...
GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th...
GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati...
GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph...
GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n...
GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g...
GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv...
GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T...
GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ...
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