Jonathan Groff Quotes

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.

Jonathan Groff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1985

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Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

Jeff Kober

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These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Mercedes Lackey

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Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a heap, you know.

Si Robertson

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There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.

Shonda Rhimes

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We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Roger Ebert

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So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

Rodney Brooks

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I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

Roscoe Mitchell

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We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.

Michelle Carter

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In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.

Monica Hesse

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The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Mindy Cohn

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Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

Jason Fried

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