Ari Graynor Quotes
I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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I play volleyball on the beach. It's a great way to work out and have fun.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
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I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
