Joel Grey Quotes
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Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I never left doo wop.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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I've traveled around the world.
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Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
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Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.
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That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.
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I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.
