Nanci Griffith Quotes
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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Please don't applaud. It may irritate your neighbour.
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I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.
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I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
