Nicola Griffith Quotes
It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
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I speak the language of television.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
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It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.
