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

• I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Think
  • Careful
  • Species

• I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Mind
  • Daily

• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Truth
  • Jesus
  • Authenticity

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

  

  Ari Graynor