Susan Griffin Quotes
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
