Spalding Gray Quotes

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

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• Honesty will never break you.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Never
  • Honesty

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good

• Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Up
  • Democracy
  • Camera

• Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Feeling
  • Breathe

• This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Book
  • Church
  • Directors

• A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Depends
  • Letters
  • Melody

• Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

  

  Paa Kwesi Nduom
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Poverty

• They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Single
  • Water
  • Mad

• You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Guy
  • Beginning
  • Film

• I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Love
  • Sex
  • Sing

• I told our guys 'This is what we're built for', we just had to get stops on defense and stay within our offense.

  

  Andy Dalton
  • Defense
  • Stay
  • Offense

• Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mother
  • Powerful
  • Forever

• The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • I Know
  • Trick
  • Same Time

• Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Voters
  • Impulses
  • Tea party candidates

• What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Pleasure
  • Stay
  • Decipher