Erik Griffin Quotes

We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

Erik Griffin

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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.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• 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.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Family
  • Joke
  • Recognized

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Die
  • Win
  • Jealousy

• One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

  

  David F. Houston

• 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.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Say

• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

  

  James Gray
  • Good
  • Family
  • Support

• 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.'

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• 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.

  

  Kenneth More
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• You need raw talent to be successful.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell

• I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Great
  • Education
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Fashion
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Donald Sinden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Job

• I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • High

• Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Pretty
  • Fear
  • Moments

• The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

  

  David Roberts
  • Long

• I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Deep

• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Singing

• It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

  

  Jo Brand

• Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Smile

• We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Comedy
  • Female
  • Voices