Gavin DeGraw Quotes
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I think we see too much female-on-female hating each other on TV. We should stick together.
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Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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Wine enlivens the human soul.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
