Ari Graynor Quotes
My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I received free health care.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.
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My regimen is I wake up, usually around 8:30, brush my teeth, and splash water on my face.
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My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
