Jonathan Groff Quotes
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.
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I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.
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Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
