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.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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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 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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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
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Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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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.
