Lauren Groff Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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At different times in your life, your body needs different things.
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You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.
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I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
