Erik Griffin Quotes
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
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It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
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In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
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You need raw talent to be successful.
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I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
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Fashion is constantly evolving throughout the seasons and within various cultural changes, but the one thing that has stayed constant is how I always want my style to be an authentic, intrinsic part of myself.
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James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.
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I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
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Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.
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We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.
