Kathy Griffin Quotes
I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
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If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
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I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.
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I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.
