Bill Griffith Quotes
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
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For some reason, she is the chosen one. People just want to turn on the TV and watch, and that's good for the rest of us. She's just got this aura around her that makes people want to pay attention.
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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember?Tara: Huh?Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs.Tara: Sassy eggs.
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
