Emm Gryner Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Habits change into character.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
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Just try to make people happy.
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I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
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If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
