Bill Griffith Quotes
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.
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I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
