Joel Grey Quotes
I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.
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Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
