Lauren Groff Quotes
We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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The mistakes of history might be gradually forgotten, but historical truth cannot be forgotten, since forgetting history could lead to the recurrence of the same mistakes.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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I want to decide between survival and bliss And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am But I know I won't keep on playing the victim
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
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I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds
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We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
