David Grinspoon Quotes
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth, the far future and the fate of humanity.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.
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I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.
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Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth, the far future and the fate of humanity.
