Spalding Gray Quotes
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I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
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I see my pen as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
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Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.
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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 .
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One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
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I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
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If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
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When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
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I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.