Ari Graynor Quotes
Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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What you are comes to you.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.
