David Alan Grier Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
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It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
