Martha Griffiths Quotes
All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
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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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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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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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I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day, we don't owe 100 percent of ourselves to anyone, and that shouldn't be expected.
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I'm not satisfied with anything I do.
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All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
