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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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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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'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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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
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A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories.
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Do not ignore the passion that burns in you. Spend time to discover your gift.
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If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
