Bill Griffith Quotes
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
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Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.
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We exhaust ourselves worrying about our health. We're obsessed with it. We worry about our health and when we worry about our health, guess what? We're not fucking healthy! We're so worried about our health that we are now the fattest group of fucks on the planet Earth! 'Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!'
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.
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What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
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How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
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I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
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Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.
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We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.
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Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
