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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Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
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The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.
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Music will always be apart of my life, I have been given a gift of song and voice and I have to use it. I don't have a mapped out time when I should hang up my mic because what I may think is my time may very well be a time to continue.
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
