Lauren Groff Quotes
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
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I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.
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Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.
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But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
