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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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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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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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
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I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
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I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
