Bill Griffith Quotes
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
Mandy Patinkin -
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart -
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden -
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt -
Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
Daisy Ridley
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
I'd love to make a thriller.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
Victoria Principal -
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine -
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten -
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
E. L. Konigsburg
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
Daniel Clowes -
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
Nancy Garden -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln -
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi -
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
Kathy Bates
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
Tabitha Soren -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana Ali -
What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
Ngaio Marsh -
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
Bill Griffith