Rachel Griffiths Quotes
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Fashion anticipates.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
