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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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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How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
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In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.
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The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career.
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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.
