Jean-Philip Grobler (St. Lucia) Quotes
We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.
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I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
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AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
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Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably true of every theater artist. If you really want to see a performance of the show, wait three months.
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We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.
