Kathy Griffin Quotes
Impersonating Celine) 'Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children'...(looks puzzled).... that's just everybody, right?
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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There was a time where I knew I was as funny as many dudes, but I had people telling me, 'You have to wear a dress onstage. You need to be more feminine.'
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Impersonating Celine) 'Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children'...(looks puzzled).... that's just everybody, right?
