Nicola Griffith Quotes
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine.
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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
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If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
