Brea Grant Quotes

I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Thought
  • Drama

• You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Just
  • Once

• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Me
  • Being
  • Really

• Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Good
  • Why
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• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice

• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Going
  • Everybody
  • Surprises

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Think
  • Find
  • Alert

• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Book
  • Want
  • Friend

• I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
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  • Colleagues

• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

  

  Banksy
  • History
  • Stop
  • Start

• I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • College
  • Clothes
  • Kid

• If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Done
  • Career

• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • Living
  • Cost

• We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Health

• It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

  

  Count Basie

• I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Good

• What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Struggle

• I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

  

  Brea Grant