Bill Griffith Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
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I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.
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The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.
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Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.
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There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
