Lucy Griffiths Quotes
I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.
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I'm not a Republican.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.
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I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.
