Martha Griffiths Quotes
All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
Quotes to Explore
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.
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I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
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Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.
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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
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In order to deceive melancholy, you must keep moving. Once you stop, it wakens, if in fact it has ever dozed off.
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All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
