George Bird Grinnell Quotes
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
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Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
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The drunk kids, the catholicsThey’re all about the sameThey’re waiting for somethingHoping to be saved
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
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I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
