Curtis Granderson Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
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When love and discipline come together you have great chemistry.
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My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
