Patty Griffin Quotes

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Patty Griffin

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• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • You
  • More
  • Less

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Fall
  • Place
  • Warm

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Talent

• What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Woman
  • Sword

• If elected, I will win.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Win
  • Will
  • Elected

• That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Catholic
  • Leaders

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

  

  Sally Field
  • Help
  • You
  • Feel

• I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Lonely

• I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • World
  • Risk

• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Lit

• And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wisdom
  • Confidence
  • Forgive

• Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• ... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Understanding
  • Impossible
  • Sorry

• Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

  

  Patty Griffin