Jay Griffiths Quotes

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

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Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

Jessica Williams

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Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Jiang Zemin

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There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

Jessica Chastain

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I think the terrorists are just idiots.

Joel Madden

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My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

Melissa Mathison

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I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Angelina Jolie

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I love the State Fair. It's an event that really brings the urban and the rural Minnesotans together. Rural people get a chance to mix with the urban folk and see what the cities have to offer, and urban people get to remember where their food comes from and who produces it for them.

Amy Klobuchar

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My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

Amy Gerstler

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If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

Simone Biles

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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Toyin Odutola

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'Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.

Tony Kaye

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Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

Roman Coppola

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