David Alan Grier Quotes
I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
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I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
