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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'Now I’m going to make you angry again.''Really?' I asked, drily. 'Aren’t you getting tired of that?'
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
