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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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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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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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 hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'No, sir.'One or the other. Not both.'Precisely, sir.'
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The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.
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I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
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I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.
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I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.
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Coming out, for me, was slightly painful. It was a relief, but it was also painful.
