Patty Griffin Quotes
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
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I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
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Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about something, it's like hearing the first two notes of a song and you can always identify the song. They can just say a word and I know exactly what they're talking about.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
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I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
