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Blake Griffin Quotes

To me, the best comedians are the ones that take everyday, normal, boring stuff that no one thinks is funny, and they make it funny. That's the same style I go for.

Blake Griffin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1989

Topics

Funny Style Best Me Go Boring

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

Jennifer Gilmore

Mother I Am Baby Color Look Hiding

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

Meg Wolitzer

Work Love Writing Control World You

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

John Malkovich

Work Today People You Go Say

I can't hold a tune at all.

Robert Stigwood

Hold Tune

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

Good Community Power Purpose Moral

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

Simon Pegg

Story Think Laugh You Kind Pay

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Trevor Moore

Change Writing Process Seeing Sketch

I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.

Rob Gronkowski

Day Week Go Flow Just

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

Matt Berninger

Good Me Song Swing Way Write

If your response to a problem or scandal isn't genuine, followers will sense it. And remember, by saying nothing, you're saying something.

Judy Smith

Saying Problem Remember You Genuine

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Diogenes

Mother Tyrants Mob

I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.

Christine McVie

Grateful Welcome Meant To Be Years