Heather Graham Quotes
I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.
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You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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The target for every great champion is to play for the team.
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
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My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.
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I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
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I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
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If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
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The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
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When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.
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I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
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A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
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I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'
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People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.
