Joel Grey Quotes
I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I started out doing musicals.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
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I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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From time to time, you will hear our opponents declare that the union is weak, that the union has no support, that the union has not grown fast enough. Our obituary has been written many times. How ironic it is that the same forces that argue so passionately that the union is not influential are the same forces that continue to fight us so hard.
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I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.
