Wayne Grady Quotes
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.