Spalding Gray Quotes
I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.
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I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
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Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
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Anyone who ain't family is opposition
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In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.
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I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.
