Jonathan Groff Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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I'm just looking for really good projects with varying characters - ones I haven't done before - so I can continue to grow as an actress.
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This film was pivotal in my life, not so much because it was my first successful effort as a producer and director, but because Hitler was so fascinated by this film that he insisted I make a documentary about the Party rally in Nuremberg. The result was Triumph of the Will.
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I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.
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I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.
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I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.
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I smile a lot in my real life.
