Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Broadway is really my life.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
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Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity.
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The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
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If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern.
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
