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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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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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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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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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.
