Merv Griffin Quotes
I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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Good material is good material.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
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I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.
