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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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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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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Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.
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If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
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A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
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Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
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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.
