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.

Spalding Gray

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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.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Economic
  • Move
  • Integration

• I knew I was going to be somebody.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Going
  • Knew
  • Somebody

• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• 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.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
  • Feel
  • Ways

• 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.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Moving
  • Move
  • Million

• Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friend
  • Virtues
  • Knew

• It's fun to move people musically.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Move

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Read
  • Knew
  • Spider-Man

• 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.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Government
  • Years
  • Knows

• If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Ifs

• I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

  

  Constance Marie
  • Kids
  • Baby
  • Knew

• I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Man
  • Peace
  • Violence

• If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

  

  William Martin
  • Children
  • Humility
  • Example

• Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Ideas
  • Humans

• 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.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Move
  • Embrace
  • Moved