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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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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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 Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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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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You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.
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Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.
