Ari Graynor Quotes
I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.
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I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
