Nicola Griffith Quotes

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

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GiftLanguageYouToolUse

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

Jeremy Piven

FeelPersonI FeelVery

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber

CultureBlackYouKnowMeanRight

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Anatoly Chubais

GovernmentI AmCityAcademicAm

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

Michael Finkel

DeathBelieveMatterPunishmentLike

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Tomi Adeyemi

PerseveranceBelieveYouWantWrite

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

Minnie Pearl

WomenPoliceHotelTryingVillage

I love tag team wrestling, and it's different than all the other matches.

Bret Hart

LoveTeamWrestlingDifferentThan

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

Bob Weir

AttentionNewTurnIndustryShould

Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning.

Anne Wilson Schaef

WorkPowerMoneyMeaningResultWay

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

OpinionThinkGenerationDownPure

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

Shekhar Kapur

DirectorSeeScreenAwkward

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

Scarlett Thomas

MeThoughtQuestionsPhysicsBack

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