Gregory Walter Graffin Quotes
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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The American Dream has been defended, in every generation, by the brave men and women willing to fight and die for America. They are our greatest national treasure. They deserve a serious Commander-in-Chief.
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For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
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If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show
