Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
-
I like to prove people wrong.
-
I don't like people cleaning my room.
-
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
-
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
-
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
-
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
-
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
-
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
-
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
-
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
-
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
-
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
-
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
-
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
-
The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.
-
For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
-
If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
-
I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men.
-
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
