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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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
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What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I was traumatized by a lot of childhood stuff. I felt that I was bad somewhere, starting with my birth.
