Nicola Griffith Quotes
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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He has helped me through a ton of highs and lows. Just having him there, and with us being so close and being able to share the whole college experience, has helped.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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If I had to name my own sub-genre, I'd probably call it ska-folk because I think that sounds pretty cool, but that's a pretty narrow way to classify what I do as far as I can judge.
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There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
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Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
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Remember that we're only on our third record, which is not really a lot. We live in the era of trilogies, and we definitely feel like the first three records mark the end of a phase for us.
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What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
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Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
