Jim Gray Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
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We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
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My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
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You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.
