Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov -
I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.
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For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
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Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
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I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
