Lauren Groff Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
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I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.
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Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
