Lauren Groff Quotes

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

Lauren Groff

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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • History
  • Technology

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• 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.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Sick

• 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.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Ghost
  • Ever
  • Personally

• 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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Age

• I love Chipotle. And I'm not just saying that. Like, I genuinely am in love with Chipotle.

  

  Chloe Kim

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much and I am willing to do this again if necessary.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Pretty

• At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy