John Gray

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Biography

New Zealand architect, Dunedin.

  • Name variations
  • Gray·J. Gray·Jon Gray
  • Active years
  • 86
  • Primary profession
  • Writer·script_department
  • Nationality
  • British (modern)
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 10 April 1817
  • Place of birth
  • London
  • Death date
  • 2000-04-01
  • Death age
  • 84
  • Place of death
  • St Leonards-on-Sea
  • Residence
  • Stirling·Rothesay·Eyemouth
  • Children
  • Edmund Dwyer Gray
  • Spouses
  • Barbara De Angelis·Elizabeth Gray
  • Education
  • Columbia Pacific University·Clare College· Cambridge·Cheltenham College·Christ's College· Cambridge·Strathallan School·Exeter College· Oxford·Scotch College· Melbourne·Trinity College Dublin·Centennial College·Blundell's School
  • Knows language
  • English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·English language·French language·English language
  • Member of
  • Melbourne University Football Club·Warwickshire County Cricket Club·England national rugby league team·Wigan Warriors·England national rugby sevens team·Coventry R.F.C.·Great Britain national rugby league team·Winnipeg Jets
  • Parents
  • Hugh Gray

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Relationship expert.

Second husband of Barbara De Angelis.

He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on April 17, 2000 for his services to entertainment in Canada.

(June 2007) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Currently working on the remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The true story of the phantom killer actually took place in Grays hometown of Texarkana, Texas.

Holds a third dan black belt in Taekwondo and trained in Tai Chi Chuan for many years. Completed three sanshou tournaments as a top ranked fighter.

George Peppard is a distant uncle.

Father is a second cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart.

Is the nephew of actor Daniel Davis. Davis played Niles the Butler on The Nanny and has been in over 50 films/television shows.

Has two children. Son Kaleb (age 7) and daughter Charly (age 2).

(December 2007) Continues work on Pit of Horror and Guts and Gory.com. Gray is now gearing up to produce and direct the remake of The Town that Dreaded Sundown for 2009 and hard at work on his own convention/festival... TX Fear Fest.

Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.

Quotes

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Fake it till you make it,If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

What you feel, you can heal.

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolved, we need no longer suffer. This is only another doctrine of salvation, subtler than that of the Christians, but no different from Christianity in its goal of leaving our animal inheritance behind. But the idea that we can rid ourselves of animal illusion is the greatest illusion of all. meditation may give us a fresher view of things but cannot uncover them as they are in themselves.

Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas there could have been no Holocaust. (. . ) Scientific fundamentalism claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of the truth. But to represent science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire. (. . . ) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. .

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