Curtis Granderson Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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Act because you love to act.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.
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There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I'm a late-night guy.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
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The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
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Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.
