David Grann Quotes
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I was a tomboy.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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You keep learning all the time.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.
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Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in which cognitive systems have gained a powerful influence on the planet.
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I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.
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Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
