David Ross Quotes
"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.
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When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.
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You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
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I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.
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We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful.
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
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Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is.
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I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.
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I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.
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I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.
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We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.
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"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.
