Jonathan Groff Quotes
It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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Wherever you are - be all there.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.
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One of our greatest challenges here in America is that pogressives don't always stand with the progressive Muslims because in the interest of freedom of religion and civil liberties and political correctness, they don't want to offend cultural choices by Muslims. I know that people have gone to these interfaith sessions at different mosques and they see that the women end up in the basement, but they don't want to challenge anyone because they think, "Oh, well this is your way".
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
