Erik Griffin Quotes
I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
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I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.
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We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.
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I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.
