Joel Grey Quotes

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Time
  • Like
  • Games

• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Anxiety

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Hood

• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Future

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Free

• You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Time

• I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Players

• Bloomberg is an overpriced legacy software system that subsidizes a money-losing media company.

  

  Martin Shkreli
  • Money
  • Legacy

• I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Business

• Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

  

  Nicole Blackman
  • Home
  • Way
  • Girls

• I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People