We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.


Gary Cherone

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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
GARY SHTEYNGART
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'...
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 ...
GARY SHERMAN
The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ...
GARY SHERMAN
The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t...
GARY SHERMAN
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu...
GARY SHERMAN
One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film...
GARY SHERMAN
I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c...
GARY SHERMAN
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events t...
GARY SHERMAN
I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems ...
GARY SHERMAN
I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always...
GARY SHEFFIELD
In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives a...
GARY SHEFFIELD
I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. T...
GARY SHEFFIELD
I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't liv...
GARY SHEFFIELD
I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame....
GARY SHEFFIELD
Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ...
GARY SHEFFIELD
I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child ...
GARY SHEFFIELD
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ...
GARY SHEFFIELD
When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I...
GARY SHEFFIELD
When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a ...
GARY SHEFFIELD
Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because,...
GARY SHEFFIELD
If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that'...
GARY SHEFFIELD
I trust no one totally.
GARY SHEFFIELD
I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted th...
GARY SHEFFIELD
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
GARY SHEFFIELD
The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They...
GARY SHEFFIELD