Jonathan Groff Quotes
A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
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All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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Honestly, production when you first start can be difficult to wrap your head around.
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
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I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament.
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I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say, urging us to be honest with ourselves about every facet of our experience. He often said that people can never get better without knowing what they know and feeling what they feel.
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They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.
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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
