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'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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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've done every diet there is.
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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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There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
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I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust.
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There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win.
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A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.
