Nanci Griffith Quotes
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
Quotes to Explore
-
Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
-
Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
-
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
-
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
-
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
-
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
-
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
-
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
-
My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
-
I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
-
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
-
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
-
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
-
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
-
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
-
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
-
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
-
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
-
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
-
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
