Eddie Griffin Quotes
Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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I will run against anybody.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.
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I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.
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I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
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Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
