Joel Grey Quotes
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
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What I stand foris what I stand on.
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If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.
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I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.
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I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
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I really do enjoy everything I do. I just do so much.
