Joyce Grenfell Quotes
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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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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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That was also my nickname in high school.
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I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.
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It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.
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I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.
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Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, 'Humour studies would that be, sir?'
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All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
