LZ Granderson Quotes
Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.
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I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose.
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With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
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It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
