Tim Griffin Quotes

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.

Tim Griffin

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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Joan Didion

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I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Jennifer Aniston

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You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.

Andrew Sean Greer

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I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

John McGahern

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The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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'Birdman' has kinda... changed things. I'm not saying you won't see traditionally made movies any more. But I've had meetings with directors, and they've said it makes them rethink everything. You can hate this movie, but you have to talk about it. It's going to go down as one of the most interesting movies ever made.

Michael Keaton

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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.

Derek Walcott

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I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.

Dean Jones

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I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

Brad Pitt

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Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

Anthea Butler

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I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

Alice Smith

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It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

Susan L. Taylor

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