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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
~ Spalding Gray
Also
Chaos
Contingent
Everything
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I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
~ Spalding Gray
About
Any
Back
Fantasize
Girlfriend
Go
Going
Good
Good Time
Had
High
High School
I Think
Knowledge
Lot
Never
Now
Pain
School
Shine
Teenage
Teenage Years
Think
Time
Where
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Years
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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 .
~ Spalding Gray
America
City
Coast
Europe
Island
Knew
Live
Move
Moved
New
New York
New York City
Off
Ready
York
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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
~ Spalding Gray
Always
Anything
Artist
Because
Collage
Control
Cutting
God
I Think
Life
Like
Live
Make
Memories
My Life
Myself
Order
Prefer
Say
Tell
Telling
Think
Up
Would
You
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I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
~ Spalding Gray
I Think
New
New York
Rest
Soup
States
Think
United
United States
Vegetable
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I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
~ Spalding Gray
Arms
Baby
Having
Held
Keep
Need
Once
People
Some
Some People
Them
Understood
Why
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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
~ Spalding Gray
Age
Because
Committed
Convinced
Grave
Me
Mother
Myself
Other
She
Side
Suicide
Waiting
Would
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If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
~ Spalding Gray
Being
Good
I Can
Laugh
Like
Lover
Make
People
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Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
~ Spalding Gray
Actually
Because
Better
Good
Hours
Me
Might
Minutes
Round
Seven
Sex
Skiing
Than
You
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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
~ Spalding Gray
Chaos
Crime
Explode
Face
Fact
Just
Madness
New
New York
Pop
Think
Vanish
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York
You
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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.
~ Spalding Gray
About
America
City
Coast
Could
Differences
Embrace
Europe
Incorporate
Island
Knew
Live
Move
Moved
New
New York
New York City
Off
Place
Ready
Supposed
Them
Tolerant
Tolerated
Which
York
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I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
~ Spalding Gray
Allen
American
Cast
Crazy
Doctor
Existential
Feel
I Feel
Ironic
Jew
Just
Lawyer
Like
Look
Looks
May
Me
Very
Woody
Woody Allen
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I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
~ Spalding Gray
America
Any
City
Confused
Father
Happening
He
How
I Think
Live
Love
Me
New
New York
New York City
Only
Place
Really
Theater
Think
Understood
Way
York
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I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
~ Spalding Gray
After
College
Ended
England
Everyone
Guided
I Was Raised
Ivy
Ivy League
Kind
League
Me
New
New England
Old
Onward
Raised
Really
Refugee
Rejected
Right
Right Way
Simply
Tradition
Up
Upper-Class
Upward
Wasp
Way
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I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.
~ Spalding Gray
Basically
Fearful
Person
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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
~ Spalding Gray
Actor
Also
Behind
College
His
Life
Man
Myself
Play
Stories
Table
Tells
Trained
Training
True
Use
Who
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Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
~ Spalding Gray
Allowed
Creation
Creator
Extent
Limiting
Me
Radio
Some
Stole
TV
Vision
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What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
~ Spalding Gray
About
Alive
Decipher
Done
Each
Enjoy
Fascinating
Logic
New
New Yorkers
Person
Personal
Place
Pleasure
Stay
Take
Way
Whole
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When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.
~ Spalding Gray
Came
City
First
Garage
Group
Joined
New
New York
New York City
Performance
Performing
Richard
Up
Where
Worked
York
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When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
~ Spalding Gray
Breakdown
Christ
Coming
First
Had
Her
Living
Living Room
Mom
Nervous
Nervous Breakdown
Room
Said
She
Vision
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Spalding Gray
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BirthDate
05 June, 1941
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11 January, 2004
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