Lauren Groff Quotes
I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
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Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist.
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Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
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Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.
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I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
