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Patty Griffin Quotes

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1964

Topics

Writing Song Body Way Right Rhythm

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

Personality People Me Help I Can

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

Myself Fire Me Care Someone You

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

Work Without Social Evangelism

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

John Ralston Saul

Great People Mind Writing Believe

I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.

Amanda de Cadenet

Girl Myself Pain Me Young Emotional

I just feel like there is nothing I cannot do.

Feel Nothing Cannot Just Like

Rich people are afraid to die.

Rodrigo Duterte

People Rich Die Afraid Rich People

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

Job Yourself Fashion Opportunities

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Man Story You Dirty Know Leaving

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Life God Woman Man Face Stronger

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

Dog Results Know Vote Try First

When I first moved to New York, I had some colleagues who said I should be my straightest self - whatever that means - when I went into casting offices, but I didn't want to put on an act of what I thought was heterosexual. I just wanted to be myself, and I'm very grateful because I feel like I've been embraced for that.

Myself Grateful New York Colleagues

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