Joel Grey Quotes
Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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Girl, tell me only this:That I'll have your heart for always.And you want me by your side,Whispering the words 'I'll always love you.'
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Eight times a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night, that felt as full, as true, as passionate, and as authentic as I ever felt in my life.
