Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
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And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
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there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try
