Joel Grey Quotes
There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
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Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.
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There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.
