Patty Griffin Quotes
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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The northern part of the state is very much like a Deep South state. Obviously, the Miami area is an international area.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
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I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
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I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
