Adele Griffin Quotes
You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
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I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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'Boys! Hey boys out there: NEVER kiss a girl unless she says she... wants you to! Alright?!' 'Never kiss a girl again. Unless she tells you she wants you to.' (To the crowd, about a fan who just kissed her, and then to that boy)
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I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.
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At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
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Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.
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For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
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You just can't know the feeling of being mother to a girl who you thought might die every single day - right up until the day she did.
