Lauren Groff Quotes
There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
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Usque adeonescire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
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He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
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There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.
