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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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're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films.
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Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
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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.
