Joel Grey Quotes
For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
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The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
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When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.
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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
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Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
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For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'
