Joel Grey Quotes
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I was rubbish at school.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.
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I have to be myself.
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My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.
