Spalding Gray Quotes
I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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Dia de Los Muertos is a holiday that pays tribute to the dead and also celebrates life. So I thought, what better of an idea to bring it in with PETA and let people know how we can respect the living and the dead. Going vegetarian could be an incredible option for people if they would just educate themselves.
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On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!'
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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
