Jonathan Groff Quotes
I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.
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Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
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I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
