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Spalding Gray Quotes

I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 5, 1941 - January 11, 2004

Topics

Live New York City America Place

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.

Tree Animal Landscape You Will See

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Freedom Law End Capable Where

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

Mirror Myself Quit Christmas First

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Attitude Mind Sexy Body Being State

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

Write Only Like Agatha Christie

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

Fox Humour Head Sense Lack Untrue

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

House Run Out Earthquake Should

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Work Struggle Together Fight Tea

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

Love I Am Place She Where Here

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

Fun Feel Way Human Kids Made

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

Work Character Reading You Feeling

That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.

Good Beauty New York City Media You

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