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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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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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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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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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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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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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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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
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Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.
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When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
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I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.
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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.
