Lauren Groff Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.
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As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
