Saul Griffith Quotes
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.
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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
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Art is no longer a purely visual experience.. ..it is a work of our intellect triggered by nature.. ..the imagination again become the queen of our strengths and we liberate our sensitivity.
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It's always something to remind you that everything ain't never gonna be alright!
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
