Joel Grey Quotes
It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
Quotes to Explore
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
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Constant change is going to be with us forever.
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
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It can take me forever to choose the right coffee cup in the morning. And it does make a difference!
