Ari Graynor Quotes
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Home is where one starts from.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.
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I've always been a fan of 'Beat It,' 'You Rock My World,' and 'Smooth Criminal.'
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We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
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Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .
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Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
