David Alan Grier Quotes
I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
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There is no time like the present.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
