Joel Grey Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.
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Acting takes so much energy.
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What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.
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The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
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And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
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I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
