Richard Griffiths Quotes

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'

Richard Griffiths

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 31, 1947

Topics

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One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

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I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

Jennifer Konner

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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Robert Smithson

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I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.

Michael Hayden

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I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Michael Flatley

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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

Simon Travaglia

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Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

Monica Hesse

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Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.

Lori Foster

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I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.

Judith Viorst

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In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Jason Clarke

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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jon Bon Jovi

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I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.

Dayton Callie

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