Nanci Griffith Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.
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We Navajos believe in witchcraft. Cut hair and fingernail clippings should be gathered and hidden or burned. Such things could be used to invoke bad medicine against their owner. People should not leave parts of themselves scattered around to be picked up by someone else. Even the smallest children knew that.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
