Ari Graynor Quotes

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

Ari Graynor

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• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Done
  • Book
  • Media

• I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Think
  • Today

• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • Calling
  • Pursued

• Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Family

• Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Real
  • Fighting
  • Human

• For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Me
  • Enough
  • Comfortable

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Integrity

• Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.

  

  Angela Merkel

• Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Good
  • Live
  • Exercise

• When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Live
  • Taken
  • Environment

• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

  

  Mason Cooley

• The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Happy
  • Giving

• Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Violence
  • Fire
  • Deliberate

• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Culture
  • Struggle

• I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

  

  Ari Graynor