David Alan Grier Quotes
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
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I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she would get even more annoyed than my father did when she thought that people were invoking God to do their jobs for them - for example, when she saw a bus with a sticker saying 'Allah Protect Us.'
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Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.
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My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
