Jonathan Groff Quotes
I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
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I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'
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When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that.
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I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.
