Bill Griffith Quotes
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
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When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
