Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes
I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.
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I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
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What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
