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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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.
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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.
