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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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.
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The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.
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There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.
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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.
