Bill Griffith Quotes
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
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I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
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If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.
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When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
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I'm sitting here with the Mets, and I get to throw out the first pitch. That's one of the coolest things in the world for anybody.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
