LZ Granderson Quotes
Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
