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.

  

  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

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• 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

• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

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

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friend
  • Knew
  • Virtues

• 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

• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moved

• We would all be a tyrant if we could.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Could
  • Tyrant

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• Support for a show is one thing, assaulting the dignity of a warm-hearted and loyal friend is another.

  

  Jo Whiley
  • Support
  • Show
  • Assault

• 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