Jay Griffiths Quotes
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.
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... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.
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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.