Joel Grey Quotes
My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
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I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
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My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was 'Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,' his version of 'Cry of the Wild Goose.'
