Nanci Griffith Quotes
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Quotes to Explore
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
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The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart.
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
