Archie Griffin Quotes

In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.

Archie Griffin

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• Getting Up

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• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Couple

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Middle

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

  

  Om Puri
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Car

• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • God
  • Lost

• Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Science

• I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Children
  • Brother

• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  

  Dizzy Gillespie
  • Life
  • Taken

• At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Age

• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  

  Jake Busey
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Heart
  • Forever

• I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

  

  Andre Iguodala
  • Player
  • Fans
  • Top

• No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.

  

  Gaelen Foley
  • Kind
  • Bachelor

• Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!

  

  Eiichiro Oda
  • Freedom
  • Dreams
  • Destiny

• In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.

  

  Archie Griffin
  • Adversity
  • Fighter
  • Getting Up