Nanci Griffith Quotes
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
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I don't really worry about the weather... as long as you have good access to the stadium, that's the one thing you worry about.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
