Ari Graynor Quotes
It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.
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Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
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It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
