Jonathan Groff Quotes
A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’
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New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.
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My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.
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My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
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I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
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I am your original autodidact.
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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
